Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a disabling condition that is characterised
by poorly reversible airflow limitation and inflammation. Acute exacerbations of COPD are a …

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a progressive condition characterized by
airflow limitation associated with an abnormal inflammatory response of the lungs to noxious …

Introduction Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a fatal lung disease of unknown origin, is
characterized by chronic and progressive fibrosing interstitial pneumonia which progressively …

Background The first European case series are detecting a very high frequency of chemosensitive
disorders in COVID‐19 patients, ranging between 19.4% and 88%. Methods Olfactory …

Background Objective data on chemosensitive disorders during COVID‐19 are lacking in
the Literature. Methods Multicenter cohort study that involved four Italian hospitals. Three …

Background The joint distribution of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
has not been well described. This study aims at determining the prevalence of self-…

Background. The rapid onset of a systemic pro-inflammatory state followed by acute
respiratory distress syndrome is the leading cause of mortality in patients with COVID-19. We …

The prevalence of asthma increased worldwide until the 1990s, but since then there has
been no clear temporal pattern. The present study aimed to assess time trends in the …

Background/Aims: Up to now, few cost-of-illness (COI) studies have estimated the cost of
adult asthma at an individual level on general population samples. We sought to evaluate the …

Asthma is a multifactorial disease influenced by genetic and environmental factors. In the
past decade, several loci and >100 genes have been found to be associated with the disease …