{"id":1342,"date":"2016-10-06T11:19:05","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T09:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/?p=1342"},"modified":"2016-10-06T11:19:05","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T09:19:05","slug":"asthma-copd-overlap-syndrome-a-merger-of-2-distinct-spectrums-of-inflammatory-airway-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/?p=1342","title":{"rendered":"Asthma \u2013 COPD Overlap Syndrome | A merger of 2 distinct spectrums of inflammatory airway diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/DigitalEditions\/mm1609-september-2016\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Asthma \u2013 COPD Overlap Syndrome | A merger of 2 distinct spectrums of inflammatory airway diseases \u2013 MM1609<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most practising doctors are familiar with the diseases of Asthma and Chronic\u00a0Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Within the cohort of these two\u00a0disease entities, there are patients that do not completely satisfy the criteria\u00a0to be diagnosed convincingly as either asthma or COPD. While the semantics\u00a0of these diseases are far more important for research purposes than the\u00a0diagnostic dilemma they pose, there have been several advances in both\u00a0asthma and COPD that make the distinction or recognition of an asthma COPD\u00a0Overlap Syndrome (ACOS) as a clinical entity more pertinent.<\/p>\n<p><em>Modern Medicine \u2013 September\u00a02016<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asthma \u2013 COPD Overlap Syndrome | A merger of 2 distinct spectrums of inflammatory airway diseases \u2013 MM1609 Most practising doctors are familiar with the diseases&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2},"beyondwords_generate_audio":"","beyondwords_project_id":"","beyondwords_content_id":"","beyondwords_preview_token":"","beyondwords_player_content":"","beyondwords_player_style":"","beyondwords_language_code":"","beyondwords_language_id":"","beyondwords_title_voice_id":"","beyondwords_body_voice_id":"","beyondwords_summary_voice_id":"","beyondwords_error_message":"","beyondwords_disabled":"","beyondwords_delete_content":"","beyondwords_podcast_id":"","beyondwords_hash":"","publish_post_to_speechkit":"","speechkit_hash":"","speechkit_generate_audio":"","speechkit_project_id":"","speechkit_podcast_id":"","speechkit_error_message":"","speechkit_disabled":"","speechkit_access_key":"","speechkit_error":"","speechkit_info":"","speechkit_response":"","speechkit_retries":"","speechkit_status":"","speechkit_updated_at":"","_speechkit_link":"","_speechkit_text":""},"categories":[122,110,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asthma","category-copd","category-pulmonology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5REYo-lE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343,"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions\/1343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modernmedia.co.za\/modernmedicine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}