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Comorbidities are common among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and a number of these comorbidities are independently associated with an increased mortality risk, according to a new study. “We followed 1,664 COPD patients recruited from five pulmonary clinics in the United States and Spain for a median of...

A new study will help clarify the origins of COPD and smoking’s contribution to the disease, according to researchers at the Center for Health and the Environment at UC Davis. The study shows that COPD appears to be partly driven by the action of immune cells circulating in the blood...