Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common respiratory condition, affecting 4.5% of people over the age of 40 in the UK. The British Lung Foundation estimates 1.2 million people have ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a group of syndromes which depict common general symptoms, but differ in several more detailed aspects. It is characterized by airway obstruction, ...

Charles Burger, MD: Pulmonary hypertension really refers to a state where the right heart is generating high pressures to circulate the blood through the lung. Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a ...

Emphysema detected on baseline low-dose chest CT (LDCT) in the lung cancer screening cohort of more than 9,000 asymptomatic ...

This transcript has been edited for clarity. Vallerie McLaughlin, MD: Hello, and welcome to this podcast series. I'm Dr Vallerie McLaughlin, the Kim A. Eagle Endowed Professor of Cardiovascular ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a group of diseases that affect the lungs. The disease makes it difficult to breath and progressively gets worse. About 15 million Americans have been ...

If you have COPD, there are some things that can cause the disease to flare up. This is referred to as “COPD exacerbation.” Some of the most common causes of COPD exacerbation include: When you have ...

Patients with both heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease have a high cost of care, but there are multiple strategies to limit readmissions. Improving clinical management of patients ...

hronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, accounts for over 100,000 deaths per year in the United States alone, making it the fourth leading cause of death. COPD is actually a group of diseases ...

Though more cases are likely undiagnosed, over 15 million people in the United States have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and 37 million are estimated to have chronic kidney disease ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a chronic, incurable condition, which is the third leading cause of death in the U.S. People with COPD experience shortness of breath, wheezing, and ...