Clinical Advances in

Chronic Respiratory Diseases: COPD and Asthma

Chronic respiratory diseases, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma, remain poorly controlled in many patients, resulting in persistent symptoms and frequent complications. Despite available guidelines for both COPD and asthma, diagnostic confusion between the 2 diseases can often appear and it may be difficult to determine the underlying disease state in an adult patient with airway obstruction. This page is designed to provide healthcare providers with the most recent data and best practices on recognizing, diagnosing, and appropriately managing COPD and asthma.

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Clinical Advances in Chronic Respiratory Diseases: COPD and Asthma

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Clinical Articles

Global Strategy for the Diagnosis, Management and Prevention of Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease 2017 Report: GOLD Executive Summary

A New Approach for Identifying Patients with Undiagnosed Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Management of the Asthma-COPD Overlap Syndrome (ACOS): a Review of the Evidence

International ERS/ATS Guidelines on Definition, Evaluation and Treatment of Severe Asthma

Steering Committee

Fernando J. Martinez, MD, MS

Steering Committee Chair

Chief, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine and New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York

Bartolome R. Celli, MD

Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts

Nicola A. Hanania, MD, MS

Associate Professor of Medicine; Director, Asthma Clinical Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

Monica Kraft, MD

Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona

Reynold A. Panettieri, Jr, MD

Professor of Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Vice Chancellor, Clinical & Translational Science; Director, Rutgers Institute for Translational Medicine & Science, Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Child Health Institute of New Jersey, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey

Michael E. Wechsler, MD, MMSc

Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine; Director, Asthma Program National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado