Losing your sense of smell is nothing to sneeze at — it could be an early sign of dementia. “Odor identification has been identified as a useful screening tool that predicts conversion from ...

More than 11 million people in the United States are living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), including more than 3 million people with emphysema, a type of COPD. This chronic lung ...

More information: Jeffrey L. Curtis et al, Design of the SPIROMICS Study of Early COPD Progression: SOURCE Study, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases: Journal of the COPD Foundation (2024). DOI ...

COPD (ICD010 J44) refers to a group of gradually developed lung diseases, characterised by tightness of the chest, coughing and (irreversibly) reduced lung function. The main cause of COPD is smoking ...

Background: For several years, asthma and COPD have been regarded as distinct entities, with distinct clinical courses. However, despite distinctive physiologic features at the time of diagnosis ...

Finally, physicians were less likely to want CPR or mechanical ventilation in permanent coma and dementia scenarios than patients with oxygen-dependent COPD (p < 0.001).