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Is the unclassifiable obstructive airway more similar to asthma than COPD?
Conclusion: The differentiation between asthma and ACO is possible and their overlap is discernable from COPD.
Source: European Respiratory Journal - October 28, 2020 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Dey, D., Sengupta, S., Saha, D., Mukherjee, S., Paul, M., Bhattacharyya, P. Tags: Monitoring airway disease Source Type: research

Work productivity loss in mild to moderate COPD: lessons learned from the CanCOLD study
Little attention has been given to the impact of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) on work productivity loss. Individuals with COPD are at risk of reduced working hours, absenteeism, presenteeism and early retirement [1]. Studies have been focused mostly on patients attending outpatient clinics [2], which exclude individuals with undiagnosed COPD, thus limiting the external validity of the findings. There are very few population-based cohort studies [3–6], few reports on presenteeism [5], and a lack of objective measures to define COPD [6]. There would be value in knowing the extent of work productivity lo...
Source: European Respiratory Journal - September 12, 2017 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: de Sousa Sena, R., Ahmed, S., Tan, W. C., Li, P. Z., Labonte, L., Aaron, S. D., Benedetti, A., Chapman, K. R., Walker, B., Fitzgerald, J. M., Hernandez, P., Maltais, F., Marciniuk, D. D., O'Donnell, D. E., Sin, D. D., Bourbeau, J., the CanCOLD Collaborati Tags: Asthma and allergy Original Articles: Research letters Source Type: research

The Biggest Medical Stories You May Have Missed In 2015
SPECIAL FROM Next Avenue By Craig Bowron As we head into the New Year, let’s take a look back and see what lessons we should have learned from medical science in 2015. The New England Journal of Medicine’s publication Journal Watch provides physicians and other health care providers with expert analysis of the most recent medical research. Below is a brief synopsis of what the Journal Watch editors felt were the most important stories in general medicine for the year 2015. While you likely heard about a couple, others probably escaped your radar. Getting Aggressive with Strokes We’re familiar with the id...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - January 15, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news