The 2025 Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) report highlighted climate change, cardiovascular risk, and pulmonary hypertension. Claus F. Vogelmeier, MD, chair of the GOLD ...

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

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 ...

A new device was able to distinguish between mild and very severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The “hallmark feature” of COPD is a sustained reduction of expiratory airflow, which is ...

Among patients with blood eosinophil counts greater than or equal to 150 cells/µL, the reduction in the annual rate of moderate to severe COPD exacerbations was found to be nominally significant. The ...

"The key finding as a clinician is to recognize that severe COPD patients have heterogeneity in terms of biological processes, which likely explains variable clinical courses and responses to ...