A rapidly changing understanding of COPD: World COPD Day from the COPD Foundation.
Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol
; 321(5): L983-L987, 2021 11 01.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1455765
ABSTRACT
World COPD Day raises awareness about chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). COPD accounts for over 150,000 US deaths per year. A major challenge is that COPD receives only a fraction of the research funding provided to other major diseases. Control of COPD is dependent on developing new approaches to diagnose the disease earlier with a recognition of either pre-COPD or established COPD based on symptoms, lung structural change and/or loss of lung function that occurs before meeting long established criteria for a population-based definition of obstruction. Optimization of current therapies improves lung function, exercise capacity, quality of life, and survival. New pathways of disease progression are being identified creating new opportunities for development of therapies that could stop or cure this disease.
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Available
Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pneumonia
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Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
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Premature Birth
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Topics:
Long Covid
Limits:
Adult
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Child
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Female
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Humans
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Infant, Newborn
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Pregnancy
Language:
English
Journal:
Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol
Journal subject:
Molecular Biology
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Physiology
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
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