Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The most impaired lung function trajectories included rapid decline. Researchers found a link between rapidly ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Reductions in forced expiratory volume in 1 second and forced vital capacity had the ability to support asthma ...

Spirometry test There is significant disparity in the ratios for postbronchodilator FEV1/FEV6 and FEV1/FVC %, and this disparity is very pronounced in women. Disclosure: One study author declared ...

Recent studies show that many patients are being treated for COPD without confirmatory spirometry. In-office testing is easy and available. A recent study showed that only 32% of patients admitted to ...

In the United States, more people die from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) than from any other condition except cancer and cardiovascular illnesses. 1 There is currently no curative ...

The most recent guidelines issued by the American Thoracic Society (ATS) and the European Respiratory Society (ERS) define COPD as follows [1]: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a ...

2 School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK Smoking is associated both prognostically and aetiologically with numerous diseases of the ...