GOLD COPD DOCUMENT 2023: a brief update for practicing cardiologists
mayo 26, 2023
COPD is the elephant in the room for many patients with CVDs.
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).
1 year after an acute COVID-19 episode, patients with either lung sequelae or long COVID show a stronger SARS-CoV-2-specific T-cell response than fully recovered individuals, suggesting persistent cell stimulation by residual viral reservoirs
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…»
This issue of Archivos de Bronconeumología features an executive summary of the new 2023.
«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…»
Patients with COPD can have acute episodes of worsening symptoms, known generically as exacerbations, which are clinically relevant because they involve an acute deterioration of the patient’s health status, worsen the patient’s prognosis, and are the main cause of economic expenditure associated with COPD.
«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…»