Group D (GOLD 3 or 4): It’s extremely hard for you tobreathein or out. You’ve had at least two flare-ups in the past year, or you’ve been hospitalized at least once. Doctors call this “end-stage” COPD. That means you have very little lung function. Any new flare-ups could...
GOLD stages of COPD severity significantly differed in SGRQ components and Barthel's index, but not in the indexes assessing cognitive and affective status and quality of sleep. The largest variation in health status was observed at the transition from stage IIa to stage IIb, while there were ...
"GOLD criteria for COPD" is a mobile app designed to help health practitioner or medical doctor to assess different stages of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). GOLD stands for Global Initiative for Obstructive Lung Disease. There are several features of "GOLD criteria for COPD", namely...
Through the development of evidence-based strategy documents for management of both COPD, and events such as the annual World COPD Day and the yearly GOLD International COPD Conference, GOLD is working to improve the lives of people with COPD in every corner of the globe. ...
According to the Global initiative for chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) criteria, COPD patients are classified into GOLD stage I (Mild), Stage II (Moderate), Stage III (Severe) and Stage IV (Very severe) based on the severity of airflow limitation19. In this study, we have employed...
After 5 and 15 years, 13.2 and 20.5%, respectively, of smokers with GOLD Stage 0 had developed COPD fulfilling criteria for GOLD Stage 1 or worse. This was the case for 11.6 and 18.5%, respectively, of smokers without respiratory symptoms. Further analyses using multivariate logistic regression...
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether in a high-risk group of middle-aged male current smokers, patient characteristics are useful to recognize mild COPD (GOLD stage I). DESIGN: In a cross-sectional study spirometry was performed according to the American Thoracic Society criteria. COPD was defined acco...
Impact of diagnostic criteria on the prevalence of COPD Clin. Respir. J., 7 (3) (2013), pp. 297-303 CrossrefView in ScopusGoogle Scholar [38] A. Pottegard, R. Christensen, A. Houji, C.B. Christiansen, M.S. Paulsen, J.L. Thomsen, et al. Primary non-adherence in general practic...
Patients needed to fulfil all of the following criteria for being included into the study: (1) have an age ≥ 40 years, (2) established or new diagnosis of COPD, (3) do not undergo any exacerbations treatment neither at baseline visit nor in the previous month (i.e., have a stab...
Intensive treatment should be started as soon as the first symptoms manifest, but at this early stage, ACR criteria may not be fulfilled, and there is... SJ Claessen,JM Hazes,MA Huisman,... - 《Bmc Musculoskeletal Disorders》 被引量: 63发表: 2009年 ...