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This organization issues recommendations for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and related medical conditions. GOLD issued its first formal recommendations in 2001. [2] Their approach departed from previous medical guidelines in two significant respects:
The 2020 Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) guidelines recommend consideration for triple therapy for people with COPD that—despite ICS/LABA therapy—are persistently breathless, cannot exercise due to their symptoms, or develop further exacerbations. [11]
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a type of progressive lung disease characterized by chronic respiratory symptoms and airflow limitation. [8] GOLD 2024 defined COPD as a heterogeneous lung condition characterized by chronic respiratory symptoms (dyspnea or shortness of breath, cough, sputum production or exacerbations) due to abnormalities of the airways (bronchitis ...
Obstructive lung disease is a category of respiratory disease characterized by airway obstruction.Many obstructive diseases of the lung result from narrowing (obstruction) of the smaller bronchi and larger bronchioles, often because of excessive contraction of the smooth muscle itself.
The GOLD (Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease) International Guidelines indicate that a regular treatment with a mucolytic like erdosteine can reduce exacerbations and improve the health status of patients with COPD. [20] In some countries erdosteine in approved for the treatment of bronchiectasis.
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