Given the rising prevalence of cognitive impairment in COPD, researchers have called for increased efforts to identify risk ...

When spirometry is unavailable, physicians can use the St. George’s Respiratory Questionnaire score plus peak expiratory flow ...

Smoking is the primary cause of COPD — accounting for around 90% of cases. However, non-smokers can also develop this disease due to a range of other risk factors. These include environmental ...

Coronavirus attacks vulnerable pathways in the lungs of smokers and patients with COPD, a new study suggests ... Determining what risk factors play the biggest role in the severity of a COVID ...

Attention towards risk factors for COPD other than smoking is increasingly being recognized in studies of environmental, occupational, and even early life factors. Although previous studies have ...