All of them can make you feel breathless. Doctors use stages or grades to describe how severe your COPD is. This system is called the GOLD staging or grading system. Your grade will affect what ...
The GOLD 2023 and 2024 reports recommend that health professionals consider triple therapy (TT) entailing combined use of a long-acting β 2 agonist (LABA), a long-acting muscarinic antagonist (LAMA), ...
To investigate the association of the GOLD ABCD groups classification with costs and health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) and to compare this with the GOLD 1234 ...
The guidelines state the recommended first choice pharmacologic therapy, an alternative choice and other possible treatments for each category: A—‘low risk, less symptoms’; B—‘low risk, more symptoms’ ...
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a chronic lung condition characterized by shortness of breath and a chronic cough. Although there’s no cure for this progressive lung disease, it can be ...