Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can result from chronic bronchitis or emphysema. Some people may also have COPD and asthma, which can worsen both conditions. Chronic obstructive ...

None of these studies investigated the relationship between the severity of pulmonary emphysema and osteoporosis. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a quantitative examination of this ...

2 Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine ... This diversity also suggests that there might be differences between individuals and even in the same individual at different times. With the exception of ...

These patients have significant emphysema and airway thickness ... 2 but may be an underestimation in patients with mild spirometric COPD,18 where the difference between symptomatic and asymptomatic ...

“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 difference between the slow and fast capacity in ... three tests were performed in 67 patients with obstructive pulmonary emphysema with or without demonstrable bronchospasm.

In this project, researchers in the Epidemiology and Genetics of Lung Cancer Research Program at Mayo Clinic are clarifying possible associations between chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) ...