Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A new study identified eight signals for asthma-COPD overlap that researchers said appear to represent loci that ...

A small proportion of patients have symptoms of both asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. A new report suggests there might be an intermediate phenotype. A new report has identified 8 ...

HONOLULU -- Pulmonologists couldn't agree whether it was time to drop asthma/chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) overlap (ACO) as a distinct airway disease, allowing no end to this ...

As evidenced by a debate at the CHEST Annual Meeting 2023, the pulmonology community disagrees on whether the overlap of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a distinct entity ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with asthma-COPD overlap have elevated risk for lung cancer compared with smokers and similar rates of ...

Individuals frequently seek medical care from clinics for issues related to asthma; the predominant symptoms for these patients will be cough, difficulty with breathing, and wheeze. One of the ...

Many patients who are diagnosed with asthma or COPD actually have ACO. Investigators in the current study didn’t rely on clinician diagnoses of both COPD and asthma to define ACO. About three-fourths ...

A large-scale analysis of the genetic underpinnings of the overlap between asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has identified eight novel signals that may be linked to inflammation ...

Current drug treatments have been incorporated into clinical practice guidelines, such as the NAEPP EPR-3 for asthma [101] and GOLD treatment guidelines for COPD, [102] both of which recognize the ...

Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are chronic respiratory diseases that cause breathing difficulty and coughing. Both conditions share similar symptoms. Understanding their ...