Treatable traits: toward precision medicine of chronic airway diseases.

More attention to comprehensive assessment and individualized therapy of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a largely preventable and treatable disease characterized by airflow limitation. The airflow limitation is usually progressive and associated with a chronic inflammatory response of the airways and lungs to noxious particles or gases [1]. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is heterogeneous and assumes different phenotypes. COPD patients with di...

Asthma, COPD & ACOS: -Omics Approach to Refine Treatable Traits in These Conditions

Toward precision medicine in Parkinson's disease.

Precision medicine refers to an innovative approach selected for disease prevention and health promotion according to the individual characteristics of each patient. The goal of precision medicine is to formulate prevention and treatment strategies based on each individual with novel physiological and pathological insights into a certain disease. A multidimensional data-driven approach is about...

Overlap Syndrome in Respiratory Medicine: Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are highly prevalent chronic diseases in the general population. Both are characterized by similar mechanisms: airway inflammation, airway obstruction, and airway hyperresponsiveness. However, the distinction between the two obstructive diseases is not always clear. Multiple epidemiological studies demonstrate that in elderly people with o...

A Decade of National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Programs Supporting COPD Research and Education .

The past decade of research in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has seen a new age of understanding both pathogenic mechanisms and clinical manifestations of the disease. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has helped guide this progress with a series of initiatives to stimulate COPD research in various ways. These initiatives were designed to promote a precision m...