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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is mainly a smoking-related disorder and affects
millions of people worldwide, with a large effect on individual patients and society as a …

This Executive Summary of the Global Strategy for the Diagnosis, Management, and
Prevention of COPD, Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) 2017 …

Background The short-term benefits of inhaled corticosteroids for patients with chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are greater in patients with evidence of eosinophilic …

Background Present treatment strategies to stratify exacerbation risk in patients with chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) rely on a history of two or more events in the …

OBJECTIVE: Exacerbations of COPD requiring hospital admission have important clinical
and societal implications. We sought to investigate the incidence, recurrence, risk factors …

Background Exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are
associated with accelerated loss of lung function and death. Identification of patients at risk …

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the third leading cause of death
worldwide. COPD, however, is a heterogeneous collection of diseases with differing causes …

OBJECTIVE. This study evaluates the relationships between quantitative CT (QCT) and
spirometric measurements of disease severity in cigarette smokers with and without chronic …

Spectral photon-counting computed tomography (SPCCT) technology holds great promise
for becoming the next generation of computed tomography (CT) systems. Its technical …