The term GETomics has been recently proposed to illustrate that human health and disease are actually the final outcome of many dynamic, interacting and cumulative gene environment interactions that occur through the lifetime of the individual.
The Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 identified that a country’s sociodemographic index was a key factor affecting mortality and loss of health from respiratory diseases.
COPD is the elephant in the room for many patients with CVDs.
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is the third cause of death worldwide. While tobacco smoking is a key risk factor, COPD also occurs in never-smokers (NS).
Chief Editor James Chalmers interviews Alvar Agusti (Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain)about the new Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) report. Listen it here.
Los próximos 3, 4 y 5 de mayo tendrán lugar el VII Simposium Internacional de la EPOC y Tabaco y el XVII Simposium Internacional sobre prevención y tratamiento del tabaquismo.
«Chronic airway diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are prevalent and complex conditions that often coexist in the same patient. To address this complexity in clinical practice, and to move forward toward personalized and precision…»
El pasado mes de febrero la UB celebró en su sala Paraninfo La “Barcelona Boston Lung Conference”, un foro anual de debate científico al más alto nivel sobre diversos aspectos de las enfermedades respiratorias, con un elenco de ponentes del máximo nivel internacional.
Àlvar Agustí ha participado en este evento como miembro del comité científico de la reunión, resaltando la importancia de “pasar de una medicina reactiva a una medicina predictiva…»
This issue of Archivos de Bronconeumología features an executive summary of the new 2023.
