In:
American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology, American Physiological Society, Vol. 321, No. 5 ( 2021-11-01), p. L983-L987
Abstract:
World COPD Day raises awareness about chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). COPD accounts for over 150,000 US deaths per year. A major challenge is that COPD receives only a fraction of the research funding provided to other major diseases. Control of COPD is dependent on developing new approaches to diagnose the disease earlier with a recognition of either pre-COPD or established COPD based on symptoms, lung structural change and/or loss of lung function that occurs before meeting long established criteria for a population-based definition of obstruction. Optimization of current therapies improves lung function, exercise capacity, quality of life, and survival. New pathways of disease progression are being identified creating new opportunities for development of therapies that could stop or cure this disease.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1040-0605
,
1522-1504
DOI:
10.1152/ajplung.00400.2021
Language:
English
Publisher:
American Physiological Society
Publication Date:
2021
detail.hit.zdb_id:
1477300-4
SSG:
12
