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 ...

—Recent studies suggest that a hospitalization related to cardiovascular events can follow a hospitalization for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. But have these studies been too broad? No ...

UVA Health researchers and their collaborators have developed a better way to predict the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a progressive, potentially deadly form of lung ...

COPD affects at least 4.5% of those 18-49 years old, according to an analysis of U.S. cohorts. The early COPD group was more likely to be hospitalized or die from chronic respiratory disease, to ...

Virtual pulmonary rehabilitation is a safe, effective alternative to traditional pulmonary rehabilitation programs for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who also require ...

Even after adjusting for other risk factors, patients with COPD were more likely to be readmitted to the hospital with heart failure following an acute myocardial infarction, or heart attack. People ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers reported significant improvements in functional independence from rehabilitation entry to discharge.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a group of diseases that affect the lungs. The disease makes it difficult to breath and progressively gets worse. About 15 million Americans have been ...