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Patients with nonobstructive chronic bronchitis appear to have a higher risk for adverse respiratory health outcomes, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

When compared with placebo or no intervention, antibiotics and systemic corticosteroids were associated with less treatment failure in adults with COPD exacerbations, according to a meta-analysis published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

In rural areas of Nepal, use of traditional stoves that burn biomass fuel and lack proper ventilation significantly increased indoor exposure to particulate matter and carbon monoxide and were shown to induce inflammatory responses in ex vivo lung tissue, according to research published in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

A study recently published in The BMJ suggests that the number of total deaths worldwide due to chronic respiratory diseases has increased during the past 3 decades, although age-standardized mortality rates have generally declined.

People with HIV had a higher rate of COPD incidence and were diagnosed at a younger age than those without HIV, according to research published in CMAJ Open.

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A meta-analysis recently published in JAMA suggests that home noninvasive positive pressure ventilation, or NIPPV, may potentially lower the risk for death, hospital admission and intubation among patients with COPD and hypercapnia.

Reduced circulating eosinophils and chronic bronchial infection raise the risk for pneumonia in patients with COPD treated with inhaled corticosteroids, researchers reported in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Among patients with COPD at low risk for exacerbations, prescription of inhaled corticosteroids was associated with patient complexity, study results published in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society suggest.

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