The role that eosinophilic chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) plays in the pathogenesis of COPD is not well understood, given the lack of evidence about the subject. A review focusing on the ...

In a subset of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), increased levels of circulating eosinophils were found in lung tissue, sputum, and blood during stable disease and ...

Over the past years, many details of the molecular pathogenesis of COPD have been revealed. This has offered new points of possible interventions, many of which are currently under investigation. This ...

Autoimmunity plays a role in the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a new study that analyzed human genome information. Autoimmunity plays a role in the ...

"Taken together the interplay of sex-specific gene regulation and its impact on ECM-related genes, influenced by factors such as genetics, epigenetics, environmental exposures, steroid hormones, aging ...

Pulmonary diseases pose a major health problem worldwide with millions of affected individuals and dire economic impact.

Charles Burger, MD: Pulmonary hypertension really refers to a state where the right heart is generating high pressures to circulate the blood through the lung. Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a ...

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a devastating disease characterized by arteriopathy in the small to medium-sized distal pulmonary arteries, often accompanied by infiltration of inflammatory ...

Since CS is the most important risk factor for the development of COPD, smoking cessation is the intervention with the greatest capacity to influence the progress of COPD. CS and nicotine seem to ...