Definition and Nomenclature of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Time for Its Revision

Affiliations

• ¹ Pulmonary Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
• ² Department of Translational Medicine, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.
• ³ Department of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• ⁴ Joan and Sanford I. Weill Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York.
• ⁵ Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky.
• ⁶ Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University Medical Center University of Marburg, German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
• ⁷ Hospital Universitario de Caracas, Universidad Central de Venezuela and Centro Médico de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela.
• ⁸ Division of Respiratory Medicine, Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, St. Paul's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
• ⁹ University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan; and.
• ¹⁰ Cátedra Salud Respiratoria, Universitat de Barcelona; Respiratory Institute, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona; IDIBAPS, CIBERES, Barcelona, Spain.