There are several tests that doctors can use to diagnose and monitor COPD. Let's take a look at what abnormal values for ...

A total of 161 COPD patients completed at least one CAT questionnaire at baseline, 75 at exacerbation and 52 of these patients completed the CAT questionnaire daily during exacerbation recovery.

This was a single-center, prospective study. Patients with COPD were included if their post-bronchodilator forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV 1)/forced vital capacity ratio was <0.7 and FEV 1 ...

For the 16 million Americans with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), travel can be as anxiety-provoking as it is ...

A project to pick up undiagnosed COPD in people who had attended lung health checks found 70% had the condition.

The 26,905 people who indicated experiencing these symptoms completed questionnaires. Those most likely to have asthma or COPD also took a spirometry breathing test -- the gold standard for diagnosing ...

After 12 weeks of nebulized NAC, patients’ mean phlegm scores, as measured by the COPD assessment test, significantly decreased from 3.47 at baseline to 2.62. N-acetylcysteine (NAC) nebulizer ...

Around 400,000 people in Austria suffer from this lung disease. Stopping smoking is the most important treatment measure for ...

Distinct patterns of symptom severity among patients with COPD sheds light on the heterogeneous nature of the patients’ ...

A rapid decline in lung function is linked to the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) ...

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One in 13 Australians over the age of 40 have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but alarmingly only half of them know they have ...