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The combination of echocardiography, N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide and pulmonary artery to ascending aorta diameter ratio predicted severe pulmonary hypertension in patients with COPD with high sensitivity and specificity.

Early physician follow-up with a comprehensive transitional care strategy and effective chronic disease management after discharge was associated with reduced 90-day readmissions among patients with COPD and other complex conditions.

Emphysema is often present before spirometry findings become abnormal, with disproportionate rates seen in Black men, according to new findings published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Pulmonary rehabilitation after hospitalization for COPD resulted in net cost savings and improvement in quality-adjusted life expectancy, according to an economic evaluation published in JAMA Network Open.

Initiating single-inhaler triple therapy for COPD, compared with multiple-inhaler triple therapy, resulted in improved persistence, which led to reductions in mortality, exacerbations and health care resource use in patients with COPD.

A pragmatic health system-level intervention improved quality of life for patients discharged after COPD exacerbation but failed to reduce 180-day readmission or mortality, researchers reported.

The Healio Editors compiled the most-read news in pulmonology posted in May.

Impaired exercise ventilatory efficiency above the upper limit of normal was associated with a greater dyspnea burden and low peak VO2 among never smokers and smokers with or without COPD, researchers reported.

Frequent productive cough is an important indicator of adverse outcomes in individuals with asthma and/or COPD, according to results of the NOVELTY study published in Respiratory Medicine.

Recurrent episodes of childhood bronchitis appear to be associated with increased risk for lung disease later in life, researchers reported in BMJ Open Respiratory Research.