Over a 3-month period, the researchers compared the changes in control status with the changes in risk level, GOLD stage, and clinical phenotype among patients with COPD.
The guideline includes 14 recommendations and 1 best practice statement on lymph node sampling, screening for extrapulmonary disease, and diagnostic evaluation of suspected extrapulmonary disease.
Current guidelines do not provide definitive recommendations for the use of oral prostacyclin pathway agents among patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension. In turn, an expert panel developed consensus...
Because the relationship between 25-hydroxyvitamin D and COPD outcomes is unclear, researchers analyzed data from SPIROMICS to determine any associations between baseline 25-OH-vitamin D, cross-sectional...
The guideline includes 6 recommendations that address significant COPD management issues, including how to treat patients with COPD who report having exercise intolerance or dyspnea.
It is unclear whether improving respiratory muscle function can increase exercise capacity among patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension. In turn, researchers evaluated the effects of inspiratory...
After assessing the diagnostic utility and safety of transbronchial cryobiopsy, the expert panel developed 6 statements to provide guidance on the potential alternative to surgical lung biopsy.
Asthma is more prevalent among women than men, but how does disease severity compare between women and men? A new analysis shed light on this question, as well as on how men and women respond to treatment...
The WHO recommendation for a shorter multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment regimen was made based on successful clinical trials conducted in Asia and Africa. But researchers investigated whether US...
