There are several tests that doctors can use to diagnose and monitor COPD. Let's take a look at what abnormal values for ...

Posters presented at the CHEST 2024 annual meeting demonstrated air pollution's role in lung impairment and disease, ...

and had post bronchodilator forced expiratory volume in 1 second/forced vital capacity ratio (FEV1/FVC) of less than 0.7. Overall, the researchers enrolled 100 patients with COPD (mean [SD] age ...

Using the Global Initiative for COPD criteria, a postbronchodilator ratio of forced expired volume in 1 s (FEV 1) to forced vital capacity (FVC) less than 0.7 is currently the accepted diagnostic ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), an irreversible form of lung disease, is treated with prescription drugs, lifestyle changes, rehabilitation therapies, and surgery in certain cases. The ...

Get more resources on masking and COVID-19 precautions. Congenital pulmonary stenosis is a health problem that is present from birth. It’s when the pulmonary valve in your heart doesn’t fully open.

The FDA has approved Dupixent as an add-on maintenance therapy for adults with inadequately controlled COPD and an eosinophilic phenotype.

in the annualized rate of moderate or severe COPD exacerbations compared with placebo. Participants treated with dupilumab also experienced numerical improvement in post-bronchodilator FEV 1 at ...

RPL554 produced a clinically and statistically significant improvement in peak forced expiratory volume (FEV1) in one second at four weeks in patients with moderate-to-severe COPD compared with ...