Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), characterized by decreased lung airflow, is the world's fourth leading cause of death. On April 4, 2001, scientists from the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) released international guidelines for COPD diagnosis, management, ...
GOLD’s program is determined and its guidelines for COPD care are shaped by committees made up of leading experts from around the world. The Temple Lung Center is a national leader in the clinical care of advanced lung disease. As a national hub for research, The TLC is actively...
GOLD was launched in 1997 in collaboration with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, USA, and the World Health Organization. GOLD’s program is determined and its guidelines for COPD care are shaped by committees made up of leading experts from around th...
This cohort study investigates the accuracy of Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) exacerbations of COPD history categories in
The creation of gold-standard datasets and the annotation of training data is a tedious, time-consuming and complex process. For instance, human experts took around five hours merely for defining the annotation guidelines to create training data for the text classification application in [15]. Furt...
1 The recent introduction of various guidelines for the management of COPD2., 3., 4., 5. aimed to standardise the diagnosis and management of this disease and therefore provide means of prevention and better treatment for the patients. Nowadays, among the most commonly used guidelines are the...
(Supplementary Table 5). High amounts of SiO2-laden dust common in hard rock ASGM mines and SiO2exposure are risk factors for silicosis, lung cancer, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), asthma, and death. Silica particles in the lung may trigger tuberculous infection (Patrick et al....
The error bars show 95% confidence level for each peak in 3 tissue sections per group with 5 random areas per tissue. ***p<0.001, using student’s t-test. Full size image Next, iron ion imaging of a COPD (GOLD IV) patient’s lung tissue was compared to standard histochemical iron (...
the diagnosis of COPD in the primary care setting is made on the basis of symptoms and signs supported by spirometry according to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines.2 The new Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) 2013 classification aims...
Nanoparticles (NPs) can potentially cause adverse effects on organ, tissue, cellular, subcellular and protein levels due to their unusual physicochemical properties. Advances in nanotechnology have identified promising candidates for many biological and