Self-administered high-flow therapy for COPD and type 1 respiratory failure: benefit not proven Due to a lack of meaningful study data, no benefit can be derived. As the legal requirements for a ...

While smoking is the most likely reason you’re get COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), there are also several other known causes and risk factors. Learn more about how you can help ...

Learn more about how COPD affects your health and changes your body, and what you can do about that to prevent or reduce your risk for this progressive lung disease.

In a landmark meeting half a century ago, William Briscoe used the term COPD. Since then, the pathophysiology and treatment modalities of chronic bronchitis and emphysema filled the textbooks ...

No benefit of high-flow therapy (HFT) can be derived from the available study data for patients with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or chronic type 1 respiratory failure. It ...

A peak flow meter is a handheld device that measures airflow rate and can help those with respiratory conditions like asthma monitor their condition.

As many as 50 percent of older adults with obstructive airway disease have overlapping characteristics of asthma and COPD. And this percentage increases as people get older.

Nasal high-flow oxygen therapy may be an alternative to noninvasive ventilation in patients with chronic hypercapnic COPD, according to data presented at the virtual European Respiratory Society ...

The current pathophysiology of COPD encompasses three main characteristics: emphysema, chronic bronchitis and small airway disease. Macrophages and neutrophils are implicated in this process; thus ...