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👀it’s out! The llatest 2023 @GOLD_COPD guidance has been released...
🌟There are BIG changes this year. Here are my first thoughts… but lots to digest:
TL/DR:
1. Revised #COPD defn
2. Etiotypes
3. ABCD is out, ABE is in
4. Farewell ICS-LABA
5. New exacerbation defn
1/n👇
🌟There are BIG changes this year. Here are my first thoughts… but lots to digest:
TL/DR:
1. Revised #COPD defn
2. Etiotypes
3. ABCD is out, ABE is in
4. Farewell ICS-LABA
5. New exacerbation defn
1/n👇
1. Definition of COPD now *includes* emphysema…
'heterogeneous lung condition characterized by chronic respiratory symptoms due to abnormalities of the airways (bronchitis, bronchiolitis) and/or alveoli (emphysema) that cause persistent, often progressive, airflow obstruction’
'heterogeneous lung condition characterized by chronic respiratory symptoms due to abnormalities of the airways (bronchitis, bronchiolitis) and/or alveoli (emphysema) that cause persistent, often progressive, airflow obstruction’
Etiotypes??👀👇
An alphabet soup from COPD-A (asthma), through 'C (cigarette smoking), 'D (abnormal lung development) and 'G (genetic #alpha-1), to 'I (infections), 'P (pollution) and U (unknown).
What do you make of this? A similar approach has helped in pulmonary hypertension!
An alphabet soup from COPD-A (asthma), through 'C (cigarette smoking), 'D (abnormal lung development) and 'G (genetic #alpha-1), to 'I (infections), 'P (pollution) and U (unknown).
What do you make of this? A similar approach has helped in pulmonary hypertension!
