- Di processo
- The academic pulmonology team at the university of parma, italy (www.unipr.it) wish to stay at the cutting edge of the copd research with the aim of discovering new therapeutic targets and new prognostic biomarkers, which may in the future allow us to better control the disease.
- Professionali
- There are many reasons why chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd) deserves to be high on the list of disease targets and research. Copd is still a major public health problem because has an high prevalence and it is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide creating a formidable challenge for the health-care systems. Copd is one of the most frequent causes of unscheduled visits in the offices of general practitioners and specialists and of emergency wards visits and hospital admissions.for every copd patient that physicians could avoid putting on a long-term ventilator and/or oxygen therapy this will save an enormous amount of money of the italian national health service.
Regione emilia-romagna has one of the best attractively (requests of being cured from other italian regions) mobility of italy for copd patients.