All of them can make you feel breathless. Doctors use stages or grades to describe how severe your COPD is. This system is called the GOLD staging or grading system. Your grade will affect what ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a leading cause of chronic morbidity and mortality worldwide and is projected to become the third leading cause of death by 2020. The burden of COPD is ...

The GOLD 2023 and 2024 reports recommend that health professionals consider triple therapy (TT) entailing combined use of a long-acting β 2 agonist (LABA), a long-acting muscarinic antagonist (LAMA), ...

COPD is a progressive lung disease with mild symptoms in the early stages that gradually worsen. Early diagnosis and treatment can help preserve lung function. The GOLD system previously classified ...

Credit: Getty Images. The 2024 GOLD COPD Report includes updated research and recommendations that reflect shifts in thinking on COPD management. Vogelmeier, who heads the Department of Medicine, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Spirometry, treatments, telemedicine and multimorbidity are notable topics at this year’s GOLD International ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Risk estimation was based on area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, sensitivity and specificity ...

GOLD’s Global Strategy for Diagnosis, Management and Prevention of COPD report is reviewed and revised annually by leading physicians in the field of COPD around the globe. It is used worldwide by ...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pulmonx Corporation, a leader in therapeutic pulmonary device technologies, announced today that the 2020 update from the Global Initiative for Chronic ...