ENWEndNote BIBJabRef, Mendeley RISPapers, Reference Manager, RefWorks, Zotero AMA Waszczykowska K, Węgierska M, Drygała R, Pawliczak R. Asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma-COPD overlap syndrome the risk of severe COVID-19. Alergologia Polska - Polish Journal Allergology. 2021;8(1):21-30. doi:10.5114/pja.2021.104655. APA Waszczykowska, K., Węgierska, M., Drygała, R., ...

Inhaled bronchodilators are the mainstay of pharmacological treatment for stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), including β2-agonists and muscarinic antagonists. Tiotropium bromide, a long-acting antimuscarinic bronchodilator (LAMA), is a treatment choice for moderate-to-severe COPD; its efficacy and safety have been demonstrated in recent trials. Studies also point to a benefici...

Article type: Original Article Introduction: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients are at increased risk of sleep-disorders. The concomitant occurrence of COPD and obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) is named overlap syndrome. This study aimed to evaluate the severity of OSAHS in overlap syndrome patients. Materials & Methods: This cross-sectional study was conduct...

Both depression and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are prevalent, severe and often comorbid disorders. There is a risk of undertreatment for depression in patients with COPD as depressive symptoms, including suicidal tendencies, can erroneously be conceptualised as an understandable reaction to COPD and not as signs of an independent depressive disorder. In this context, the comor...

BACKGROUND We hypothesized that heterogeneity exists within the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) 1 spirometric category and that different subgroups could be identified within this GOLD category. METHODS Pre-randomization study participants from two clinical trials were symptomatic/asymptomatic GOLD 1 chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients and healt...

A significant weakness of the excellent work by Kaplan and colleagues relates to a lack of discussion on the spirometric overlap between asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and how this may lead to disease misclassification. This clarification is important since their diagnostic algorithm for asthma, Figure 1, contains a decision node labelled “Spirometry results consistent ...

To the editor: I read the study by Horita et al “Depression in Japanese Patients With COPD: A Cross-Sectional Study,”1 in which the severity and prevalence of depression were found to be associated with the severity and other parameters of COPD.1 In addition to the COPD parameters, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) should be added as a risk factor for depression. The comorbid association of COPD an...