COPD News

The indoor air quality of nursing homes has the potential to negatively impact the respiratory health of elderly people residing in the homes, according to study results.

Patients with COPD exhibited reduced quadriceps endurance when compared with healthy control participants regardless of the type of task or measurement technique, according to study results.

Patients with COPD and chronic bronchitis had a worse quality of life, symptoms and mental well-being than those patients with chronic airway obstruction, according to study results.

The lack of consistency in reporting levels of pain for patients with COPD restricts the ability of clinicians to determine patient pain intensity and may limit them from choosing the proper pain assessment instruments, according to study results.

Patients with COPD and multiple comorbidities are more likely to have increased medical costs and to use treatments such as long-acting muscarinic antagonists and inhaled corticosteroids, according to study results.

Dietary nitrate supplementation with beetroot juice increased exercise performance and reduced blood pressure in patients with moderate-to-mild COPD, according to study results.

The oral phosphodiesterase-4 inhibitor roflumilast helped prevent severe exacerbations and improved lung function in patients with severe COPD who had exacerbations despite inhaled combination therapy, according to study results.

Climatic change may lead to increases in allergies, Lyme disease and other airborne and bacterial diseases, according to a climate report from the Minnesota Department of Health.

AstraZeneca has agreed to purchase Actavis’ branded respiratory business in the United States and Canada for an initial $600 million plus an additional $100 million, according to a press release.

Up to 45% of physicians inappropriately prescribed antibiotics to outpatients with respiratory tract infections, according to study results published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.