Clinical Assessment of COPD
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) should be suspected in any patient • aged 40 years or more with symptoms of cough, sputum production, or breathlessness and/or a history of exposure to risk factors, in particular smoking. When seeing patients with respiratory symptoms or smokers – think of COPD Do spirometry • Exclude differential diagnoses, perform chest x-ray • Assess functional impairment, by interview and even better by testing • When possible, standardize your questioning • Consider further physiological testing or imaging • Calculate BMI, it has prognostic value •
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