At least half of smokers will develop chronic bronchitis (CB), cough and sputum without lung-function impairment, and up to 15% will develop chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD ...

Rationale Proline–glycine–proline (PGP), a neutrophil chemoattractant derived from the enzymatic breakdown of collagen, is elevated in sputum of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...

To diagnose chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), doctors typically ... Coughing enough to produce a sputum sample may be uncomfortable for a few moments. Otherwise, there are no real ...

Comparisons between this literature and reports of current practice suggest that discrepancies may exist in relation to the clinical management of sputum in individuals with COPD. The novel ...

A study was undertaken to investigate the sputum cell and cytokine characteristics of COPD when stable and during an exacerbation. METHODS Induced sputum samples from 57 patients with moderate to ...

Dyspnea, or shortness of breath, is a common COPD symptom. You may experience different ... When your airways can’t properly clear themselves, excess mucus will become a problem.

The problem with COPD is you have obstruction to air flow ... Thomas DeMarini, MD cont their mucus production will get worse. These can be due to just the disease. They can also be due to an ...

In this cohort study involving 9399 current and former smokers from the Genetic Epidemiology of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease study, we assessed the relationship between artificial ...

COPD is a chronic inflammatory lung disease that can be caused by prolonged exposure to lung irritants such as cigarette smoke, air pollution, or chemical gases. The disease is characterized by ...