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…Background About half of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have hypertension, which significantly worsens prognosis…

…Introduction Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) imposes substantial clinical and economic burdens. Early…

…tifies barriers that impede implementation of a care bundle for COPD management. To guide our analysis, we identified challenges tha…

… 2 diabetes, coronary atherosclerotic heart disease, stroke and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, were involved in the study using convenience sampling. Critica…

…ditions: chest pain, congestive heart failure (CHF), pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and suicidality.A two-round modified Delphi panel study …

…Introduction Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) affects approximately 480 million individuals globally a…

…nd intracranial disease. Respiratory causes of death, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer and pneumonia, were increased for TB patients, whi…

… be influenced by social factors. We aimed to identify distinct COPD clinical phenotypes and assess variation by social determinants…

… rheumatologists from the hospital’s electronic records system. SLE patients who met the 1990 American College of Rheumatology (ACR…

…stinct clinical phenotype which may differ from smoking-related COPD. They may therefore need to be treated and followed differently…

…Introduction Preventable morbidity and mortality from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) accrue from major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs) …

… produce inaccurate readings. We describe a man in his 60s with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease admitted to hospital with a lower respiratory tract infection a…