Syed Azfar Hussain

Trends in mortality involving chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and obesity in the United States, 1999–2023

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and obesity are major US public health conditions that frequently coexist. Despite adverse respiratory and cardiometabolic effects of obesity, an apparent “obesity paradox,” whereby obesity has been associated with lower mortality in some patients with COPD, has been describ...