10th Anniversary of Biomedicines—Advances in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
A special issue of Biomedicines (ISSN 2227-9059). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular and Translational Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 11057
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Interests: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency; clinical trials
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Dear Colleagues,
The year 2023 marks the 10th anniversary of Biomedicines, a peer-reviewed, open access journal in the biomedical field. So far, Biomedicines has published more than 2700 papers from more than 17,000 authors. We appreciate each author, reviewer, and academic editor whose support has brought us to where we are today. To celebrate this significant milestone, we aim to publish a Special Issue entitled “10th Anniversary of Biomedicines—Advances in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)”.
This Special Issue focuses on recent advances in diagnostics and therapeutics for COPD, which represents an increasing medical and economic burden worldwide. Understanding is now growing about public health reasons for this, such as air pollution and occupation, as well as the commonly known risk factor of cigarette smoking. Furthermore, knowledge of treatment has advanced from the generic to the specific, with newer treatments targeting pathophysiological endotypes of COPD rather than the generic management of airflow obstruction. We also understand the range of co-morbidities that COPD patients exhibit, and we are beginning to delineate shared pathophysiology and routes to therapy. Nevertheless, there remain many unanswered questions in COPD, from how to address etiological risk factors or generic treatments, particularly in resource-poor environments, to patient selection for high-cost targeted therapies, such as monoclonal antibodies. We invite the submission of research articles that will improve our knowledge on these topics, either through original research or reviews. We particularly welcome manuscripts that focus on the treatment of COPD, either from trials or real-life cohort studies.
Prof. Dr. Alice M Turner
Guest Editor
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