Higher diet quality linked to improved lung function in asthma, COPD

Higher diet quality is associated with better lung function (LF), especially among individuals with asthma or chronic ...
Medscape

Is It Asthma or COPD? Clinical Pearls for Diagnosis by PCPs

Chronic lower respiratory diseases, namely, asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), are the fifth-leading cause of death in the United States. A contributing factor is diagnostic ...
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8 warning signs of COPD that appear years before most people are ever diagnosed

Roughly 16 million Americans have been diagnosed, and millions more have no idea.
Medscape

The Asthma–Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Overlap Syndrome

Current drug treatments have been incorporated into clinical practice guidelines, such as the NAEPP EPR-3 for asthma [101] and GOLD treatment guidelines for COPD, [102] both of which recognize the ...
UPI

Asthma, COPD often not diagnosed, study indicates

NEW YORK, May 19 (UPI) --Finding and treating people with undiagnosed asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease improved their health and led to fewer appointments for respiratory symptoms in ...
Tech.eu

COPD diagnosis is broken. TidalSense wants to fix it with 75 seconds of breathing

With hundreds of thousands waiting for diagnosis, the UK medtech is tackling the patient, staffing, and capacity problems of ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Machine Learning Tool Identifies Asthma, COPD Better Than a Physician, Study Finds

A diagnostic algorithm was evaluated for its ability to gauge the presence of asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), in a new analysis. An asthma/chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...
Self

COPD vs. Asthma: What’s the Difference Between These Lung Conditions?COPD vs. Asthma: What’s the Difference Between These Lung Conditions?

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 ...
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Asthma-COPD Overlap: Still an Elusive Diagnosis

Many patients who are diagnosed with asthma or COPD actually have ACO. Investigators in the current study didn’t rely on clinician diagnoses of both COPD and asthma to define ACO. About three-fourths ...