COPD News

The Healio Editors have compiled a list of the most-read news in pulmonology posted in June.

Patients with asthma-COPD overlap have elevated risk for lung cancer compared with smokers and similar rates of lung cancer compared with those with COPD, but greater risk than patients with asthma alone, researchers reported.

COPD admissions significantly decreased following the implementation of public health measures during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data published in the American Journal of Medicine.

Younger adults with COPD have elevated rates of health care utilization and excess mortality, researchers reported.

A home-based exercise training program for patients with COPD after pulmonary rehabilitation was associated with high adherence and a benefit in functional exercise capacity but no change in dyspnea from baseline to 1 year.

Patients with severe emphysema who received an endobronchial valve had sustained improvements in lung function and quality of life out to at least 24 months, according to long-term data from the TRANSFORM study.

Over the past 6 decades, despite improvements in air quality and tobacco use, socioeconomic disparities in pulmonary disease prevalence, respiratory symptoms and lung function persisted and, in some cases, worsened, according to new data.

Two-fifths of Medicare beneficiaries with COPD in the U.S. have poor or limited access to pulmonary rehabilitation centers, according to research presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.

Morning use of once-daily controller medications for asthma and COPD was common and associated with higher adherence than afternoon and evening use, according to results presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.

The Healio Editors have compiled a list of the most-read news in pulmonology published in April.