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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...
1 in 6 U.S. Adults With Asthma Can't Afford Meds
TUESDAY, Dec. 10, 2024 – Over 3 million Americans with asthma can't afford to take their medications as prescribed, a new poll estimates. In total, about 1 in 6 folks with asthma are struggling to...
Benralizumab Beneficial for Eosinophilic Exacerbations of Asthma, COPD
TUESDAY, Dec. 10, 2024 – Benralizumab can be used for the treatment of acute eosinophilic exacerbations of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a study published...
Wildfire Smoke Is Choking America's Cities -- Is Yours on the List?
TUESDAY, Dec. 10, 2024 – Heavy smoke from wildfires more frequently chokes the skies over the Western United States, but cities farther to the east are no longer being spared, new research shows....
Smoker or Former Smoker? Here Are 4 Key Things You Need to Know
MONDAY, Dec.2, 2024 — Doctors have potent new weapons against the deadliest cancer in America and they want to make sure they're on the radar of current and former smokers. "Lung cancer screening is t...
Scientists Develop Whole New Form of Effective Asthma Treatment
THURSDAY, Nov. 28, 2024 – Geoffrey Pointing says its hard to describe the distress of an asthma or COPD flare-up. “Honestly, when you're having a flare up, it's very difficult to tell anybody how y...
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