A new study published in the BMJ Open Respiratory Research journal showed that patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

All had received a diagnosis of either dementia, heart attack, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or colon cancer in 2016. Each person's domicile (including nursing homes) was tracked ...

The study included more than 34,000 patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), dementia, or kidney failure ...

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 ...

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 ...

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).