Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients may have difficulty completing bronchodilator response testing. Patients with severe asthma may still ...

Although there is significant improvement in managing asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) diseases, there is still a strong need in controlling symptoms to prevent hospitalizations ...

Among 535 symptomatic smokers with a 10 pack-year history and preserved lung function assessed by spirometry, 56.4% in the treatment group and 59.0% in the placebo group had a least a 4-point decrease ...

Pulmonary diagnostic tests are a series of tests which evaluate how well the lungs are performing. These tests may be performed to help diagnose disease, monitor disease progression or therapeutic ...

And compared with the rest of the year, bronchodilator responsiveness was more common in winter months. HealthDay News — Patients are more likely to have positive bronchodilator responsiveness in the ...

OBSTRUCTIVE pulmonary emphysema, as the term is used here, refers to a chronic progressive process manifested clinically by dyspnea, which most commonly makes its appearance in middle-aged or elderly ...

New use of long-term inhaled bronchodilators is associated with an early increase in the risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD), the findings of a new study suggest. In a large observational study, the ...