Objective Long-term azithromycin treatment effectively prevents acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...

After adjusting for age, gender, height, smoking status, pack year, alcohol status, body mass index (BMI), exercise and urinary creatinine, significant dose–response associations of urinary iron with ...

In multivariate regression analysis, only gender (p < 0.001) and FEV 1 /FVC ratio (p < 0.001) predicted total LAA%. Conclusions: At all stages of COPD severity, men have more CT emphysema than women.

Emerging data strongly suggest that COPD is a heterogeneous disease with varying clinical phenotypes. [15] Although airflow limitation is the defining feature of COPD, there are many differences ...