Loneliness is a key risk factor for symptom exacerbations and hospitalizations in people with COPD, highlighting the need for ...

Background: For several years, asthma and COPD have been regarded as distinct entities, with distinct clinical courses. However, despite distinctive physiologic features at the time of diagnosis ...

This roundup offers a look at the latest insights from the clinicians and researchers investigating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma.

Asthma seems to be a predisposition that if you are an asthmatic as a child and then smoke cigarettes then you have a fairly significantly higher risk of developing COPD later in life. Narrator ...

or heartburn seems to correlate with the development of COPD exacerbations, [20] a factor that was previously studied in asthma. The pathogenesis of this is poorly understood, but may be related ...

For context, according to the World Health Organization, COPD is one of the leading causes of death globally. Asthma is also widely prevalent, impacting hundreds of millions of people annually.