Recent evidence highlights the importance of optimal lung development during childhood for health throughout life. Objectives: To explore the plasticity of individual lung function states during childhood.
COPD is a complex and heterogeneous disease characterized by chronic airway inflammation. The latter may alter airway antimicrobial defense systems and therefore favor the colonization of the bronchial mucosa by potentially pathogenic microorganisms.
Participa en la reunión mixta «Novedades GOLD 2023» el próximo 23 de Noviembre de 2022. Con la participación de: Alvar Agustí, B. Cosio, JL Izquierdo, JL Lopez-Campos, M. Miravitlles, JJ Soler-Catalunya
Alvar Agustí, Chairman del GOLD Board of Directors, participa en la reunión internacional en Filadelfia (EEUU) el 16 de Noviembre de 2022, para presentar la nueva guía 2023 sobre la enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica (EPOC).
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.
Early diagnosis and treatment of COPD seems to be of paramount importance, and efforts are being devoted to the diagnosis of pre-COPD and COPD in young individuals…
La enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica (EPOC) ha sido tradicionalmente entendida como una enfermedad autoinfligida por el hábito tabáquico que ocurre en adultos de más de 50-60 años. Este paradigma tradicional ha cambiado en los últimos 10 años por la aparición de nueva evidencia científica que muestra que existen otros muchos factores genéticos. (…)
GOLD critically evaluates the new evidence since the previous publication and decides whether it merits (or not) inclusion in the most recent update.
«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…»
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the end result of a series of dynamic and cumulative gene-environment interactions over a lifetime…
