COPD management mainly aims at relieving symptoms, and improving exercise tolerance
and quality of life, as well as preventing exacerbations, disease progression and mortality …

COPD is recognised as one of the major health challenges for the coming decades. This is
primarily driven by a growing burden of the disease due to persistent exposure to tobacco …

The First World Lung Disease Summit took place in Lisbon over two days in November
2013. This inaugural meeting, of what is hoped to be a long-running annual series, brought …

Treatment guidelines are mainly based on randomised clinical trials that include a small and
highly selected fraction of the COPD population [2]. Therefore, it is questionable as to …

COPD is a chronic disease, typically accompanied by multiple comorbid conditions. The
need to apply several, and sometimes conflicting, disease-specific treatment guidelines …

Owing to its major and better recognised burden from both individual and societal
perspectives, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an area of intensive …

An important part of the daily clinical practice of the pulmonologist is related to patients with
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Management of stable COPD includes …

Abstract Background Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is characterized by
respiratory and extrarespiratory components referring both to systemic complications of …

Introduction: The aim was to investigate how the pattern of pharmacological treatment in
Swedish patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has changed over a …

COPD is the fourth leading cause of death and affects nearly 400 million worldwide, causing
much disability as well as early mortality [1]. Management should be tailored to each patient …