Asthma and COPD have characteristic symptoms, yet patients with both are prevalent.
Despite this, there is currently no globally accepted definition for the overlap between …

Although chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma are well-characterized
diseases, they can coexist in a given patient. The term asthma–COPD overlap (ACO) was …

Abstract The Spanish COPD Guidelines (GesEPOC) were first published in 2012, and since
then have undergone a series of updates incorporating new evidence on the diagnosis and …

Background There is controversy regarding the role of blood eosinophil levels as a
biomarker of exacerbation risk in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Our aim …

Asthma-COPD overlap (ACO) is a heterogeneous condition that describes patients who
show persistent airflow limitation with clinical features that support both asthma and COPD …

Resumen La Guía Española de la Enfermedad Pulmonar Obstructiva Crónica (GesEPOC)
se publicó por primera vez en 2012 y desde entonces ha experimentado una serie de …

Background and objective Lack of consensus on diagnosis of ACO limits our understanding
of the impact, management and outcomes of ACO. The present observational study aims to …

Exposure to air pollutants has been correlated with an increase in the severity of asthma and
in the exacerbation of pre-existing asthma. However, whether or not environmental pollution …

Global Strategy for the Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention of Chronic Obstructive Lung
Disease 2019 Report: Future Challenges Global Strategy for the Diagnosis, Management, and …

Introduction There is currently no universally accepted definition of asthma− COPD overlap
(ACO). Objective To compare the prevalence of ACO in patients with asthma or COPD, and …