ALLMedicine™ Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Center

Mar 19th, 2023 - Previous studies on the association between abdominal and general obesity and respiratory disease have provided conflicting results. We aimed to explore the associations of abdominal obesity with respiratory symptoms, asthma, and chronic obstructi...

Mar 19th, 2023 - Recently, deaths due to mucormycosis in immunocompromised hosts have increased; however, the clinical and pathological features of mucormycosis are not fully understood, especially in view of the associated high mortality and rare incidence in imm...

Mar 19th, 2023 - To investigate the value of comprehensive rehabilitation therapy in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and its effect on improvement in patients' inflammation. A total of 174 patients with acute COPD exacerbation in the Affiliated Hospit...

Mar 19th, 2023 - Low-dose computed tomography has been proven to reduce mortality, yet utilization remains low. The purpose of this study is to identify factors that impact the utilization of lung cancer screening. We performed a retrospective review of our instit...

Mar 19th, 2023 - There are regional differences in the effect of green space on mortality of Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). We conduct an ecological study, using the administrative divisions of Chongqing townships in China as the basic unit, to inve...

May 18th, 2022 - SAN FRANCISCO -- For neighborhoods near a major coking operation in Pittsburgh, its shutdown at the end of 2015 was followed by markedly lower rates of respiratory disease hospitalizations, researchers reported here. Inpatient admissions for ch...

May 11th, 2022 - Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an irreversible reduction of airflow in the lungs. Progression to severe disease can prevent participation in normal activities because of deterioration of lung function. In 2020 it was estimated tha...

Apr 6th, 2021 - Antimicrobial overuse is a major health care issue that contributes to antibiotic resistance. Such overuse includes unnecessarily long durations of antibiotic therapy in patients with common bacterial infections, such as acute bronchitis with chro...

Dec 11th, 2020 - Long-term mechanical ventilation is a well-established treatment for chronic hypercapnic respiratory failure (CHRF). It is aimed at improving CHRF-related symptoms, health-related quality of life, survival, and decreasing hospital admissions. In S...

Aug 17th, 2020 - Background: Noninvasive ventilation (NIV) is used for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and chronic hypercapnia. However, evidence for clinical efficacy and optimal management of therapy is limited.Target Audience: Patient...

Mar 10th, 2023 - This study will be a prospective, longitudinal, observational, single-center, exploratory, natural history study to collect samples and data that will enable prospective explorations of the interaction between environmental exposures and disease p...

Mar 9th, 2023 - Globally, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is projected to be the third largest cause of death by 2030 and in the US over 16 million people have COPD. Smokers are four and a half times more likely to develop COPD than non-smokers, with...

Mar 9th, 2023 - Scientific Rationale: In late 2019 and early 2020, researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology identified a potential new etiologic agent, called new coronavirus 2019 (nCoV-2019). Subsequently, the epidemic unleashed by this virus involved the ...

Mar 8th, 2023 - Acute exacerbations of COPD (AECOPD) negatively impact on patients' health status and disease progression, and increase patients' susceptibility to exacerbations, hospitalizations and death. Therefore, the treatment goals for patients with AECOPD ...

Mar 8th, 2023 - Background： Chronic respiratory and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is the one of the major causes of global morbidity and mortality. Patients with chronic respiratory disease often experience exercise limitation and physical inactivity due...

Among more than 195,000 state quitline callers, 32.3% reported having one or more of the following chronic diseases: asthma, coronary artery disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and diabetes. Callers who had a chronic disease were typica...

Mar 14th, 2023 - Greater adherence to the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet was associated with a significantly reduced risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and improved lung function, based on data from more than 28,000 individua.

Mar 8th, 2023 - A lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) in early childhood nearly doubles the risk of premature death from respiratory diseases in adulthood, according to a prospective cohort study that spanned eight decades. The study of over 3,500 individual...

Feb 28th, 2023 - In two somewhat close votes, an FDA panel of outside experts recommended the agency approve Pfizer's respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine for older adults, despite concerns over the potential risk for Guillain Barré syndrome. By a tally of 7-...

Feb 15th, 2023 - The five-question CAPTURE screening tool showed high specificity but low sensitivity in detecting undiagnosed chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in primary care. Of 110 patients with undiagnosed but clinically significant COPD, 53 had a ...