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Initiation of pulmonary rehabilitation within 90 days after hospitalization for COPD was associated with significantly lower mortality at 1 year, according to data published in JAMA.

From January through March, during the COVID-19 pandemic, adherence to controller inhalers appears to have increased among patients with asthma and COPD, according to a research letter published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.

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Patients with chronic diseases aged older than 65 years, particularly those with cardiovascular disease or diabetes, are at significantly greater risk for acquiring COVID-19 and subsequent mortality from the virus, according to findings presented during a CDC webinar.

Patients with hyperinflated emphysema experienced improvements in dyspnea, activity level and psychosocial parameters after undergoing lung volume reduction with an endobronchial valve, according to data published in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

Patients hospitalized for COPD exacerbations who were also found to have undiagnosed obstructive sleep apnea had an increased likelihood for subsequent death or hospital readmission, researchers reported in Chest.

Among people who have never smoked, the risk for lung cancer was more than twice as high among those with COPD, as compared with those without COPD, according to a Korean study.

Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are each associated with an increased risk for rheumatoid arthritis, independent of smoking and other variables, according to data published in Arthritis & Rheumatology.

The prevalence of undiagnosed COPD was high among a cohort of individuals participating in low-dose CT lung cancer screening, suggesting that the addition of spirometry to radiological findings would likely improve identification of those with COPD, new data in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society suggest.

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