COPD symptoms vary depending on the amount of lung damage that has occurred due to inhaled substances, most commonly smoking. Symptoms are usually slow to develop and often don’t appear until there’s ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a lung condition that often hides in plain sight. You may think you're dealing with a common cold, when in reality, your lungs are swollen, irritated ...

Incorporating chest CT imaging and respiratory symptoms into the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) diagnostic schema improved identification of individuals with poor respiratory outcomes, ...

All of them can make you feel breathless. Doctors use stages or grades to describe how severe your COPD is. This system is called the GOLD staging or grading system. Your grade will affect what ...