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Diagnosis and Outpatient Management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Review

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2019
Importance There are 30 million adults (12%) in the United States who have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease accounts for 3.2% of all physician office visits annually and is the fourth leading cause of ...
C. Riley, F. Sciurba
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease comorbidities

Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine, 2016
Classic descriptions of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) centered on its impact on respiratory function. It is currently recognized that comorbidities contribute to the severity of symptoms and COPD progression. Understanding COPD-comorbidities associations could provide innovative treatment strategies and identify new mechanistic pathways ...
Jeanette P, Brown, Carlos H, Martinez
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Disease-a-Month, 1988
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is equated with chronic bronchitis and emphysema as one disease entity. In COPD airflow limitation is relatively persistent--unlike asthma. Tests for "small-airways disease" form no part of routine practice, for their accuracy in detecting pathological change is debatable.
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Rethinking chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Medical Hypotheses, 2011
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a complex polygenic disease characterized by an abnormal inflammatory response to smoke, and results in a progressive and debilitating condition with declining lung function. The reasons why some smokers get COPD are not known. We suggest that corticosteroid resistance, which derives from oxidative stress,
Tonello A, POLI, GIOVANNI
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Hospital Practice, 1981
While the prospects of "curing" a patient of emphysema, chronic bronchitis, or asthma are poor, prompt institution of appropriate drug therapy and adjunctive measures can keep the patient from becoming a respiratory cripple.
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Pulmonary Biomarkers in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2006
There has been increasing interest in using pulmonary biomarkers to understand and monitor the inflammation in the respiratory tract of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In this Pulmonary Perspective we discuss the merits of the various approaches by reviewing the current literature on pulmonary biomarkers in COPD and ...
BARNES PJ, CHOWDHURY B, KHARITONOV SA, MAGNUSSEN H, PAGE CP, POSTMA D, SAETTA, MARINA   +6 more
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Preventing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine, 2009
The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease and the American Thoracic and European Respiratory Societies boldly define chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) as a ‘preventable’...
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Nursing Older People, 1999
M, Tregonning, C, Langley
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Global strategy for the diagnosis, management, and prevention of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. NHLBI/WHO Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) Workshop summary.

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2001
R. Pauwels, A. Buist, P. Calverley, C. Jenkins, S. Hurd   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Medical Journal of Australia, 1989
C R, Jenkins, C A, Mitchell
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