A new device was able to distinguish between mild and very severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Women with COPD, asthma, and OSA may go undiagnosed or without proper care because their symptomatology differs from the classic male presentation.

Mortality risk was 34% lower among patients who underwent spirometry when initiating medication for a chronic respiratory condition.

Pulmonary function tests (PFTs) are frequently normal in patients with sarcoidosis, despite evidence of abnormal chest radiography.

Using imaging and respiratory symptoms, researchers identified up to 15.4% of individuals without airflow obstruction as ...

Skolnik said, “For example, pulmonary function tests like spirometry are very helpful in gaining insight as to whether ...

University of Alabama at Birmingham-led researchers have refined and validated a new framework for diagnosing chronic ...

Management of COPD in people with learning disabilities can be made more complex due to medical compliance issues and inhaler ...

Current recommendations for diagnosis of COPD in patients with respiratory symptoms require detection of airflow obstruction ...

Including imaging and symptom-based data in COPD diagnosis captures patients with high-risk disease otherwise overlooked.

Incorporating chest CT imaging and respiratory symptoms into the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) diagnostic ...

A new chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) diagnostic schema integrating respiratory symptoms, respiratory quality of life ...