The incidence and prevalence of chronic-degenerative diseases in a progressively elderly population has increased worldwide over the last several decades 1. In this context, cardiopulmonary disease ...

To explore opportunities for improving care based on the experiences and perspectives of different types of COPD patients based on the Information-Motivation-Behavioral skills (IMB) model with poor ...

—Recent studies suggest that a hospitalization related to cardiovascular events can follow a hospitalization for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. But have these studies been too broad? No ...

UVA Health researchers and their collaborators have developed a better way to predict the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a progressive, potentially deadly form of lung ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Risk estimation was based on area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, sensitivity and specificity ...

Even after adjusting for other risk factors, patients with COPD were more likely to be readmitted to the hospital with heart failure following an acute myocardial infarction, or heart attack. People ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers reported significant improvements in functional independence from rehabilitation entry to discharge.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a group of diseases that affect the lungs. The disease makes it difficult to breath and progressively gets worse. About 15 million Americans have been ...

Pulmonary arterial hypertension is characterized by pulmonary vascular remodeling, cellular proliferation, and poor long-term outcomes. Dysfunctional bone morphogenetic protein pathway signaling is ...