Current Controversies in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. A Report from the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease Scientific Committee

Research demonstrates that Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is not only preventable, but treatable.Despite these efforts, COPD continues to claim many lives, and disable many more, without any cure in sight.Our inability to reverse the devastating course of COPD is in part due to the fact that it is often recognized late, after the disease has advanced.In addition, COPD is a complex disease with protean pulmonary and non-pulmonary...