A Rising STAR in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease or More Deckchair Rearrangement?
Peter M. A. Calverley · 2024
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Peter Calverley comments on how doctors grade the severity of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, in a 2024 editorial. Grading guides treatment, and for decades it has rested on a breathing test with set cut points. The scheme used worldwide sorts patients by how far their lung capacity has fallen.
Calverley traces this habit back to the long history of classifying disease by measurable traits. He weighs a newer staging idea, hinted at by the STAR in his title, against the charge of merely reshuffling the same groups. Lung capacity remains the strongest single predictor of death, he notes. Any new scheme must prove it adds real insight beyond that number. The piece is a caution against relabeling without better prediction.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Peter M. A. Calverley |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 10 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |