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Previous Volume 357:2210 November 22, 2007 Number 21

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Edited by Robert Stockley, Stephen Rennard, Klaus Rabe, and Bartolome Celli. 892 pp., illustrated. Malden, MA, Blackwell, 2007. $264.95. ISBN 978-1-4051-2289-4.

The prevalence, morbidity, and mortality of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have increased to the extent that the World Health Organization estimates that COPD is now the fourth leading cause of death worldwide. Approximately 3 million deaths each year are caused by COPD. Patients require frequent hospitalization, making it a costly disease with an extremely high socioeconomic burden. Not long ago, physicians had a nihilistic view of treatment, but this view has changed recently and the current definition characterizes the disease as preventable and treatable.

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease was edited by a group of distinguished scientists. It contains 70 . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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