Quit smoking and control your indoor air quality. Exposure to smoke, dust, fumes, vapors and chemicals can worsen your COPD.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) isn’t just one condition. It’s a family of diseases such as emphysema and chronic bronchitis that interfere with your breathing. In chronic bronchitis, ...

Some people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) need to use multiple inhaled medicines each day to control their symptoms. Long-acting combination inhalers that contain more than one ...

Characteristics of participants are displayed in Table 1. All smokers had started smoking at a time when this was socially acceptable. Most had started smoking because of social reasons. Theme 1: ...

Long-acting inhaled therapy is usually delivered using a handheld inhaler. People with COPD need to use their inhaler correctly to receive the optimal treatment dose. Assessing inhaler technique ...

The researchers demonstrated how to jointly examine prevalence estimates of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) from PLACES and social vulnerability measures from the Social Vulnerability ...

Personalized Medicine. 2014;11(7):669-679. Large-scale attempts to integrate diverse datasets, including inputs from multiple EHRs and other previously untested sources, such as genotyping, will pave ...

Chest pain is a relatively common symptom of COPD. It may occur due to bronchial spasms, digestive conditions like GERD, or even frequent coughing. Managing COPD-related chest pain involves several ...

More Than 50 Medicines in Development for COPD, Third Leading Cause of Death in U.S. Washington, D.C. (February 2, 2012) - America's biopharmaceutical research companies are working on 54 medicines to ...

A diagnosis of COPD is confirmed by post‑bronchodilator spirometry supported by a quality-control process. To ensure early diagnosis, spirometry should be done in primary care when a person presents ...