It isn’t pleasant, but there are ways to manage it. Doctors use stages to describe how severe your COPD is. This system is called the GOLD staging or grading system. COPD sneaks up on you ...

Researchers have identified new lung function and blood test cutoffs to improve timely chronic hypercapnia management in ...

stage. The GOLD system classifies the severity of a patient's COPD into one of four stages, with one classified as mild COPD and four classified as very severe COPD. The results of the study ...

The majority of the patients diagnosed with an atypical infection belonged to GOLD stages III or IV (higher ... pathogens are cause of exacerbation in COPD patients with more severe disease.