Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with asthma-COPD overlap have elevated risk for lung cancer compared with smokers and similar rates of ...

HONOLULU -- Pulmonologists couldn't agree whether it was time to drop asthma/chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) overlap (ACO) as a distinct airway disease, allowing no end to this ...

As evidenced by a debate at the CHEST Annual Meeting 2023, the pulmonology community disagrees on whether the overlap of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a distinct entity ...

—Is it asthma? Is it chronic obstructive pulmonary disease? In a genome-wide association study, researchers in the U.K. have determined signals that are associated with both diseases. Here are the ...

Older adults with coexisting asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), known as asthma-COPD overlap, who take fixed-dose combinations of inhaled corticosteroids and long-acting β ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Length of stay was 1 day longer for those with asthma-COPD overlap vs. COPD or asthma alone and the cost was ...

A large-scale analysis of the genetic underpinnings of the overlap between asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has identified eight novel signals that may be linked to inflammation ...

Glenview, Ill. (August 5, 2015)-- Researchers may be closer to finding the mechanism responsible for loss of lung elastic recoil and airflow limitation in nonsmokers with chronic asthma. The study ...

Samuel Louie; Amir A Zeki; Michael Schivo; Andrew L Chan; Ken Y Yoneda; Mark Avdalovic; Brian M Morrissey; Timothy E Albertson Atopy, the genetic predisposition for the development of an IgE-mediated ...

A high-pitched whistling sound when you breathe is the first tip-off that air is fighting to make its way into or out of your lungs. That sound is aptly named wheezing, and it is something that people ...