Doctors use stages to describe how severe your COPD is. This system is called the GOLD staging or grading ... the first stage can be easy to miss. COPD treatment goal is to help you breathe ...

With 30% of COPD cases misdiagnosed, experts call for improved diagnostic strategies, better disease classification, and ...

There are various ways to measure COPD stages, including using the GOLD system and BODE index. There’s no way to predict exact life expectancy, but having this progressive lung disease can ...

Treatment varies widely, with GOLD (Global Initiative for Chronic ... and have several novel classes of drugs for COPD in development (Table 1), including inhibitors of leukotriene B 4 receptors ...