COPD News

Participants who underwent respiratory muscle training for 5 weeks had sustained, improved results after not training for the same amount of time, according to study results published in Experimental Physiology.

Despite demonstrating high specificity, a screening tool “did not perform well” overall in identifying undiagnosed COPD among primary care patients, researchers found.

Quality of care for patients with acute exacerbations of COPD did not improve after the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program was put in place compared with the period prior to the program’s implementation, according to study results.

Some patients with COPD experience lung function decline over time, and a study recently showed that chronic bronchial infection by any pathogenic microorganism can hasten this decline.

Former smokers with COPD who experienced exacerbations had larger lung density declines than those without exacerbations, according to a letter to the editor published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

One year after surgery, patients with COPD had a greater risk for mortality and higher health care costs than those without COPD, according to a study published in Canadian Medical Association Journal.

Across cohorts of patients with COPD, withdrawing inhaled corticosteroids from triple therapy resulted in similar FEV1 declines as remaining on triple therapy, according to a study published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

A majority of adults older than 50 years with COPD had no psychiatric disorders and had good mental health, according to a study published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

The addition of high-flow nasal cannula to long-term oxygen therapy may decrease exacerbations among patients with stable hypercapnic COPD, according to a study published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Healio Pulmonology has compiled the top news on COPD posted in 2022.