All of them can make you feel breathless. Doctors use stages to describe how severe your COPD is. This system is called the GOLD staging or grading system. Your grade will affect what treatment you ...

COPD symptoms vary depending on the amount of lung damage that has occurred due to inhaled substances, most commonly smoking. Symptoms are usually slow to develop and often don’t appear until there’s ...

COPD is a group of progressive lung diseases that includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Despite affecting an estimated 32 million people in the United States, as many as half are unaware they ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is frequently associated with cardiovascular, metabolic, and psychological diseases, all of which can negatively impact quality of life, exacerbations, and ...

Few situations are more unsettling than not being able to breathe. Whether from a momentary injury that knocks the wind out of you, swimming underwater for too long or recovering after sprinting at ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . This analysis examined three phenotypes of pulmonary hypertension (PH) associated with COPD. Patients with ...

The 2026 version of the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) strategy report has been published. Key updates in the report were highlighted in a presentation by Claus F ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More patients with end-stage renal disease on dialysis vs. patients without kidney disease had comorbidities.

Recent research suggests that certain biologic medications called monoclonal antibodies may help treat emphysema more effectively than some current therapies. These medications include benralizumab ...