focusing on the important COPD co-morbidities of the pulmonary system (infective exacerbations, pneumonia, influenza and lung cancer) and cardiovascular system (acute coronary syndrome ...

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COPD patients with GERD, diabetes, or osteoporosis experience higher rates of exacerbations and increased healthcare ...

Health-related quality of life is low among patients with ALD due to comorbidities, such as COPD and musculoskeletal and psychiatric disease.

H ealth care providers treating people with COPD also need to focus on the person's socioeconomic factors, along with ...

Critically both of these respiratory diseases have complex, poorly understood aetiology and co-morbidities. Our focus, both clinically and in research, is on Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary ...

No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterized by varying degrees of exaggerated pulmonary and systemic ...