Long-term smokers often have a chronic cough. They may get used to it, and perhaps also to being winded after climbing stairs.But there are good reasons to take these symptoms seriously, as they can ...

Available treatments for COPD are mainly palliative ... a pyramidal approach starting with lifestyle measures and SABA for mild cases, progressing to LABA, with or without ICS (preferably in ...

In this stage, your symptoms are most likely to be very mild. Your FEV1 falls ... Regular use of spirometry for COPD progression tracking is important for COPD treatment. Each stage comes with ...

Tezepelumab did not significantly decrease moderate or severe COPD exacerbations compared with placebo, the COURSE trial found.

A recent trial showed that nicotinamide riboside supplementation might reduce airway inflammation in patients with COPD who ...

There is no evidence that Oz or Snoop Dogg has ever developed or advertised any over-the-counter COPD treatment. David Mannino, chief medical officer and co-founder of the COPD Foundation ...

The Spanish COPD guidelines recommend treatment of the mixed COPD–asthma phenotype with ICS and a long-acting bronchodilator (LABD) as a first option to improve lung function, respiratory ...

This was in part because they were more likely to smoke than women, and tobacco products are the leading cause of COPD in the U.S. But in the past 25 years, women have overtaken men as the primary ...

If these trials confirm the findings, benralizumab could become the first new therapy approved for eosinophilic exacerbations ...

“Patients with mild-to-moderate COPD who have low exercise tolerance are likely to experience poor respiratory health outcomes,” the investigators concluded. “Exercise tolerance may be considered one ...

These investigators found that mild COPD was associated with considerable socioeconomic and clinical burdens compared with matched controls without COPD. Even mild COPD was associated with ...