Extreme temperatures significantly increase morbidity and mortality risks for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Learn more.

People with type 2 diabetes who take GLP-1 and SGLT-2 medications have a lower risk of having COPD symptom flare-ups than ...

Using a series of more than 1,000 X-ray snapshots of the shapeshifting of enzymes in action, researchers at Stanford ...

Columnist Caroline Gainer discusses a study whose findings suggested that respiratory muscle strength training could help ...

Vitamin D deficiency is strongly associated with an increased risk of severe acute exacerbations in patients with chronic ...

China: A recent study published in the International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease has shed light on the ...

Steroids for COPD include oral steroids, inhaled steroids, and combination inhalers. Each type comes with its own benefits and side effects. While no cure currently exists for COPD, several types ...

It can be difficult to tell asthma and COPD apart because both may include coughing, wheezing, and shortness of breath. Asthma is a risk factor for COPD and your chances of having both increase as ...

"Our findings suggest that NR could possibly be a viable treatment option for patients with COPD," the authors wrote. "We acknowledge that our results need to be confirmed and replicated in longer ...

If a threshold of 10% risk of COPD was used to make spirometry referrals, the addition of the polygenic risk score correctly reclassified 13.8% of COPD cases in one of the cohorts ...

The research, published in the Journal of the COPD Foundation, examined more than 8,000 decedents with COPD and found that those with a greater burden of FRID prescriptions were more likely to ...