Explore strategies for controlling COPD and improving health, with a focus on management and lifestyle changes.

Chronic bronchitis is the type of bronchitis that causes COPD. It develops when hair-like fibers called cilia disappear from the bronchial tubes, making it difficult to cough mucus from the lungs.

Expert pulmonologists share essential guidelines on distinguishing normal coughs from dangerous ones, plus effective home ...

The problem with COPD is you have obstruction to air flow, so most patients have a chronic cough, have some shortness of breath, have some wheezing. And periodically they will have what we call an ...

Chronic lower respiratory diseases, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), are the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control ...

Of these, 36% reported a diagnosis of or treatment for COPD. Odds ratio (95% CI) for AO with smoking (≥ 20 pack-years) was 3.73 (3.12–4.45), 1.98 (1.73–2.27) for cough, 1.79 (1.55–2.08 ...

Globally, COPD is also a leading cause of death. Data from the World Health Organization in 2021 ranked it as the fourth ...

Chronic lower respiratory diseases, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), are the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control ...

Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic interstitial lung disease characterized by progressive scarring of lung ...

Design and Patients: Randomised, double-blind, double-dummy, placebo-controlled study in 123 patients experiencing an acute exacerbation of COPD ... clinical outcomes (cough intensity and ...

People with COPD experience more falls and related injuries requiring medical care when using common fall-risk increasing ...

There’s also something called a subacute cough, which can last from three to eight weeks, says Jairo Barrantes-Perez, M.D., assistant professor of pulmonary medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. But ...