—Physiologic changes apparent well before the onset of clinical COPD may help to predict smokers in whom COPD eventually develops—and can be detected by routine spirometry. Reviewed by Ware Kuschner, ...
"Oh, that's just from smoking." It's easy to dismiss a chronic cough as another problem with cigarettes. But what if it's a sign of the lung disease COPD? Franziska Gabbert/dpa Long-term smokers often ...
If you start to experience symptoms like chest pain, blue lips, or coughing up more than a teaspoon of blood, you should see ...
I overheard the EMS radio calling in to the emergency department and could immediately hear the urgency in the voice of the paramedic about a patient being brought in. He told us they were bringing in ...
—A recent Australian study sought to determine the impact of COPD and smoking on post-operative pulmonary complications following lung cancer resection. Reviewed by Ware Kuschner, MD, Professor of ...
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Logistic regression predictive model derived from backward elimination (threshold P = .10) of statistical terms that included symptoms, age, pack-years smoked, and their two-way interactions. The ...
No causal association with psychiatric disorders was observed in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) without a smoking history, while ever ...
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a degenerative lung disease that causes obstructed airflow from the lungs and difficulty breathing. According to the Centers for Disease Control and ...
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), often called Smoker's Disease, is increasingly found in younger adults, raising concerns among doctors. A study in NEJM Evidence showed that about one in ...
Smoking marijuana is not associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, according to a newly released study. Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles examined ...
AstraZeneca (AZN) announced on Wednesday that its late-stage trial of Fasenra in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) did not achieve statistical significance in the primary ...