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      Pulmonary rehabilitation for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

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      Cochrane Airways Group
      Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
      Wiley

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          Widespread application of pulmonary rehabilitation (also known as respiratory rehabilitation) in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) should be preceded by demonstrable improvements in function (health-related quality of life, functional and maximal exercise capacity) attributable to the programmes. This review updates the review reported in 2006.

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              An official American Thoracic Society public policy statement: Novel risk factors and the global burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

              Although cigarette smoking is the most important cause of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a substantial proportion of COPD cases cannot be explained by smoking alone. To evaluate the risk factors for COPD besides personal cigarette smoking. We constituted an ad hoc subcommittee of the American Thoracic Society Environmental and Occupational Health Assembly. An international group of members was invited, based on their scientific expertise in a specific risk factor for COPD. For each risk factor area, the committee reviewed the literature, summarized the evidence, and developed conclusions about the likelihood of it causing COPD. All conclusions were based on unanimous consensus. The population-attributable fraction for smoking as a cause of COPD ranged from 9.7 to 97.9%, but was less than 80% in most studies, indicating a substantial burden of disease attributable to nonsmoking risk factors. On the basis of our review, we concluded that specific genetic syndromes and occupational exposures were causally related to the development of COPD. Traffic and other outdoor pollution, secondhand smoke, biomass smoke, and dietary factors are associated with COPD, but sufficient criteria for causation were not met. Chronic asthma and tuberculosis are associated with irreversible loss of lung function, but there remains uncertainty about whether there are important phenotypic differences compared with COPD as it is typically encountered in clinical settings. In public health terms, a substantive burden of COPD is attributable to risk factors other than smoking. To prevent COPD-related disability and mortality, efforts must focus on prevention and cessation of exposure to smoking and these other, less well-recognized risk factors.
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                Journal
                146518
                Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
                Wiley
                14651858
                February 24 2015
                Affiliations
                [1 ]National University of Ireland Galway; School of Nursing and Midwifery; Aras Moyola Galway Co. Galway Ireland
                [2 ]Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec, Université Laval; 2725 Chemin Sainte-Foy Québec QC Canada G1V 4G5
                Article
                10.1002/14651858.CD003793.pub3
                25705944
                8e8917f5-610f-4579-8926-92e56f64c3ce
                © 2015
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