Adults hospitalized for acute COPD exacerbation faced elevated odds for all-cause mortality and ICU admission if they had end-stage renal disease and were on dialysis, according to data presented at ...

The main goals of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) management include treatment of symptoms and prevention of exacerbations. Current guidelines recommend use of one or more long-acting ...

Patients hospitalized for acute COPD exacerbation had reduced odds for in-hospital mortality if they had a prior history of bariatric surgery, according to data presented at the CHEST Annual Meeting.“ ...

In patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), increasing frequency and severity of exacerbations were linked to a higher risk of future exacerbations and all-cause and COPD-related ...

Most chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbations were observed in those not treated with controller medications, but less than half of patients in the study received controller ...

telemedicine Researchers examined the risks for pneumonia and exacerbation of COPD after PPI treatment for GERD. The risk for symptom exacerbation reduced after PPI treatment for patients with GERD ...

New research shows that individual exacerbations in chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD) themselves increase the likelihood of repeat exacerbations, even after five days of full, asymptomatic ...

Brensocatib, a DPP1 inhibitor, is the first FDA-approved therapy for non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis, showing significant clinical and structural benefits. The ASPEN trial demonstrated that ...

Woman suffering an anxiety attack alone in the night How does a delay in initiating triple therapy affect patients with COPD with a history of several moderate COPD exacerbations during a 1-year ...

bronchodilators, COPD Triple therapy with budesonide/glycopyrrolate/formoterol fumarate in patients with COPD, regardless of exacerbation history, reduced ...

Poor quality of sleep was found to have a strong association with symptomatic exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to a recent Canadian study presented at the 2016 ...