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Nearly Half of Americans Breathe Unhealthy Air, New Report Finds
FRIDAY, April 25, 2025 — Breathing the air in nearly half of the United States could be putting the health of residents at risk. A new American Lung Association report shows that 156 million people l...
ACP: AI Recommendations More Often Better Quality for Virtual Care Visits
MONDAY, April 7, 2025 – Artificial intelligence (AI) recommendations are more often rated as better quality than final recommendations of physicians for virtual care visits made by patients with...
Adverse Outcomes Increased With Long-Term Inhaled Corticosteroids in COPD
FRIDAY, March 28, 2025 – For patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), long-term inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) treatment is associated with increased rates of adverse composite and...
COPD Tied to Increased Risk for Death in Patients With Arthritis
THURSDAY, March 20, 2025 – Adults with arthritis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have a higher risk for mortality than individuals without COPD, according to a study recently...
Death Risk Higher Among People With Arthritis And COPD
MONDAY, March 17, 2025 – Arthritis sufferers who also have COPD have a significantly higher risk of death than those without the chronic breathing disease, a new study says. People with arthritis...
Certain Glucose-Lowering Meds Associated With Lower Risk for COPD Exacerbations
FRIDAY, Feb. 21, 2025 – For patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT-2is) and glucagon-like peptide-1...
Injurious Falls Common in Last Years of Life With COPD
THURSDAY, Jan. 23, 2025 – Injurious falls are common among people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in the two years before death, with some medications tied to higher fall risk,...
Beginning to Smoke Before Age 15 Increases Risk for COPD
TUESDAY, Jan. 14, 2024 – Beginning cigarette smoking before 15 years of age is significantly associated with later chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) risk, according to a study recently...
Women Wait Longer and Are Less Likely to Receive Lung Transplant
THURSDAY, Jan. 9, 2025 – Women are less likely to receive a lung transplant than men and wait longer on the waiting list, but they have significantly higher posttransplant survival, according to a...
Childhood Smoking Ups COPD Risk
FRIDAY, Jan. 10, 2025 – Young teens might think smoking makes them look cool, but it’s likely to take their breath away in adulthood, a new study says. Children who start smoking prior to age 15 h...
Low Birth Weight May Increase Risk for Later COPD
TUESDAY, Jan. 7, 2025 – Individuals in the lowest quintile of birth weight appear to have an increased risk for subsequent chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a study...
Study Compares Single-Inhaler Triple Therapies for Treatment of COPD
FRIDAY, Jan. 3, 2025 – For patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), budesonide-glycopyrrolate-formoterol does not improve clinical outcomes compared with...
Bidirectional Association Found Between Rheumatoid Arthritis, COPD
FRIDAY, Dec. 27, 2024 – There is a bidirectional association between rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a review published online Dec. 1 in...
AI Can Accurately Diagnose and Stage COPD With Inspiratory-Only Chest CT
TUESDAY, Dec. 17, 2024 – Convolutional neural network (CNN)-based chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) diagnosis and staging using single-phase computed tomography (CT) has accuracy...
AI Guided Breath Test Could Speed COPD Diagnosis
MONDAY, Dec. 16, 2024 – Folks with difficulty breathing can learn if they have COPD from a new AI-guided lung test, a new study suggests. The newly developed AI can accurately diagnose COPD using...
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