COPD News

Nonobstructive chronic bronchitis was associated with increased mortality in current and former smokers, according to a review and meta-analysis published in Chest.

The European Respiratory Society published an advocacy statement on International Women’s Day calling for greater awareness and focus on the increase in respiratory diseases in women.

Former smokers with COPD may be more susceptible to inflammatory responses to short-term exposure to moderate concentrations of diesel exhaust than former smokers without COPD or healthy never smokers, researchers reported.

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

Abdominal obesity is a risk factor for COPD and asthma among premenopausal and postmenopausal women in South Korea, according to study findings published in Menopause.

Exposure to high concentrations of fine particulate matter from a coal mine fire over a 6-week period was associated with an increased risk for COPD in nonsmokers nearly 4 years later, researchers reported.

Direct-to-consumer testing, combined with clinical follow-up, helped identify patients with undiagnosed alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, according to data published in Chest.

One-fifth of patients with chronic medical conditions who received two doses of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine had insufficient antibody levels at least 14 days after the second dose, researchers reported in Chest.

Among patients with COPD, major cardiovascular risk factors were common but inadequately monitored, treated and controlled, researchers reported in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

Heavy smoking, based on pack-years, in adults with progressive fibrosing interstitial lung disease was associated with increased risk for mortality, according to research published in Respiratory Medicine.