While you may be able to manage this lung condition with medications and lifestyle changes, you might experience periods when your COPD symptoms worsen. These are known as exacerbations or flare-ups.
Background The natural history and time course of the onset of exacerbation events of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is incompletely understood. Methods A prospective cohort of 212 ...
In the treatment of COPD exacerbations, systemic corticosteroids improve airflow limitations, decrease treatment failure rates, decrease the risk of relapse, and may improve symptoms and decrease ...
“Patients with mild-to-moderate COPD who have low exercise tolerance are likely to experience poor respiratory health outcomes,” the investigators concluded. “Exercise tolerance may be considered one ...
The pooled-BENRA group had significantly better 28-day total VAS symptoms vs the PRED group (least-square mean difference ... and ABRA was not powered to assess asthma and COPD exacerbations ...
12 Patients with COPD, selected to be at high risk of acute exacerbation ... The number of exacerbations for each participant and the date of onset of symptoms for each exacerbation were recorded.