Studies in health technology and informatics
Nov 23, 2023
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common respiratory disease, which seriously endangers human health and is also one of the important causes of death. The death rate of COPD in China is the highest in the world, and the problem of und...
The Journal of the Association of Physicians of India
Sep 1, 2023
BACKGROUND: Asthma COPD overlap (ACO) is a consensus-based phenotype having characteristics of both COPD and asthma. Distinguishing ACO from other diseases is even more important as it is related to low health-related quality of life, augmented exace...
American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology
Aug 1, 2023
Chord length is an indirect measure of alveolar size and a critical endpoint in animal models of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In assessing chord length, the lumens of nonalveolar structures are eliminated from measurement by various ...
COPD exacerbations are associated with significant morbidity, mortality, and increased health care expenditures. The recently published Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) recommendations have further refined the definition ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jun 29, 2023
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) exacerbation exhibits a set of overlapping symptoms with various forms of cardiovascular disease, which makes its early identification challenging. Timely identification of the underlying condition that ca...
This paper describes developments in the fields of asthma and COPD self-management interventions (SMIs) over the last two decades and discusses future directions. Evidence around SMIs has exponentially grown. Efficacy on group level is convincing and...
OBJECTIVE: To compare the effectiveness of Logistic regression, BP neural network and support vector machine models in the prediction of 30-day risk of readmission in elderly patients with an exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COP...