Selected article for: "long term and lung function"

Author: Qiu, Yingshan; Lam, Jenny K. W.; Leung, Susan W. S.; Liang, Wanling
Title: Delivery of RNAi Therapeutics to the Airways—From Bench to Bedside
  • Document date: 2016_9_20
  • ID: 04pp3lv0_60
    Snippet: COPD is a persistent lung disease characterized by irreversible chronic airflow limitation. The disease is usually progressive and associated with an increased chronic inflammatory response in the lungs [205, 206] . It is the result of long term exposure to air pollutants and usually associated with cigarette smoking [205] . It affects around 10% of the population in the world. It is the fourth leading cause of death in most of the industrialized.....
    Document: COPD is a persistent lung disease characterized by irreversible chronic airflow limitation. The disease is usually progressive and associated with an increased chronic inflammatory response in the lungs [205, 206] . It is the result of long term exposure to air pollutants and usually associated with cigarette smoking [205] . It affects around 10% of the population in the world. It is the fourth leading cause of death in most of the industrialized countries and expected to become the third by 2020 [207] . Three classes of medications used to manage COPD are bronchodilators (including β 2 -adrenergic receptor and anticholinergic drugs), corticosteroids and phosphodiesterase-4 inhibitor. They are effective in relieving the symptoms of COPD, but none of them can reverse the progressive deterioration in lung function or cure the disease [4, 205] . It is desirable to develop a novel therapy that can simultaneously control the symptoms and improve the long-term prognosis of the disease.

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