Healio

Antidepressants raise risk for pneumonia, exacerbation in COPD

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . After using an antidepressant, the risk for pneumonia and COPD exacerbations went up. Discontinuing ...
News Medical

ICS use may lower risk of mortality from pneumonia and other causes in COPD patients

Treatment of COPD with inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) may decrease the risk of dying from pneumonia and from other causes despite being associated with an increase in the occurrence of pneumonia, ...
Healio

Active cigarette smoking linked to elevated pneumonia rates in COPD

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Tobacco product use was deemed “active” if used in the past 30 days. Active e-cigarette use and cigar smoking ...
Medscape

Inhaled Steroids Lower Pneumonia Mortality in COPD Patients

April 21, 2011 — For patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), prior use of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) is associated with a lower risk for short-term mortality and lower use of ...
kcra.com

This lung disease can be dangerous for younger people, too

MERCY MEDICAL CENTER. 57 YEAR OLD STEPHANIE HARRIS HAS BOTH ASTHMA AND CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE, OR COPD. I STARTED SMOKING AROUND THE AGE OF 14 OR. 15. AND I COMPLETELY STOPPED MAYBE ...
Healthline

COPD: Symptoms and Patient Groups

COPD symptoms vary depending on the amount of lung damage that has occurred due to inhaled substances, most commonly smoking. Symptoms are usually slow to develop and often don’t appear until there’s ...