Objectives In patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), severe exacerbations (ECOPDs) impose significant morbidity and mortality. Current guidelines emphasise using ECOPD history to ...

Bert Wessels takes exactly 22 wobbly steps to his car and leans on the door handle, staring fixedly at the ground while he catches his breath. After around 10 seconds, Bert wrenches the door open and ...

Visakhapatnam: A team of researchers from Andhra Medical College, Visakhapatnam and several other institutions not only from India, but also from the United States and the United Kingdom, assessed an ...

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 19, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Smokers with low lung function (LLF) without airflow obstruction have reduced survival and an increased risk for chronic morbidities, according to a study ...

Maybe you know you snore like a bear, but you don’t feel much urgency to look into it. Or maybe you have been told to wear a continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, machine for sleep apnea, but ...

Of the 43% of study participants without pre-existing lung conditions, 70% had normal PFTs, 16% had obstructive pattern, 12% restrictive pattern, and 2.3% mixed pattern. After recovering from mild to ...

Real-world gait metrics differed significantly between people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and healthy older adults and worsened progressively with disease severity. People with ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The link between preserved ratio impaired spirometry (PRISm) and airway obstruction development was independent ...

“This new COPD diagnostic schema, which includes chest imaging, respiratory symptoms and spirometry, identified additional individuals at risk of poor respiratory outcomes,” said Bhatt, a professor in ...

Incorporating chest CT imaging and respiratory symptoms into the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) diagnostic schema improved identification of individuals with poor respiratory outcomes, ...