This book considers chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) not as a simple inflammation
of the lung but as a systemic inflammatory disease. Beginning with epidemiological studies
etiology diagnosis and treatment it elaborates further illustrating some comorbidities and
associations with other respiratory diseases. As such it provides numerous improved and more
comprehensive treatment methods including drug therapies as well as some non-drug therapies.
There are also chapters describing the pathogenesis genetic abnormalities and newly discovered
pathogenetic mechanisms that are expected to be studied further in the future. Edited and
written by pioneering researchers each chapter summarizes the latest trends describes future
prospects and explores the unresolved and critical questions. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary
Disease - A Systemic Inflammatory Disease is a valuable resource to beginning researchers
physicians engaged in clinical practice supervisors and basic researchers whose work includes
COPD.
