Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We’ve all felt winded when taking the stairs or dealt with a cough from time to time. But if these issues linger, they could be ...

COPD symptoms vary depending on the amount of lung damage that has occurred due to inhaled substances, most commonly smoking. Symptoms are usually slow to develop and often don’t appear until there’s ...

(StatePoint) Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe. A leading cause of disability and death in the United States, more than 12.5 ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a lung condition that often hides in plain sight. You may think you’re dealing with a common cold, when in reality, your lungs are swollen, irritated ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is frequently associated with cardiovascular, metabolic, and psychological diseases, all of which can negatively impact quality of life, exacerbations, and ...

Are you finding that your chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is making it harder to do the things you enjoy? Canceling plans more often? Missing work due to flare-ups? It could mean your ...

“Emphysema is usually a description of images — CT scan or X-ray — and is only one part of the disease of COPD,” says Uddalak Majumdar, MD, pulmonologist at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. COPD is ...

ABP Live Doc Talk: Most of the patients come into the clinic with complaints of asthma, particularly when they have chronic ...

Objective: Prognostic studies of mortality in patients with COPD have mostly focused on physiologic variables, with little attention to depressive symptoms. This stands in sharp contrast to the ...

Incorporating chest CT imaging and respiratory symptoms into the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) diagnostic schema improved identification of individuals with poor respiratory outcomes, ...