Affective Descriptors of the Sensation of Breathlessness Are More Highly Associated With Severity of Impairment Than Physical Descriptors in People With COPD.

The article presents a study which examined the association of breathlessness with the severity of impairment in airflow obstruction. The researchers used an observational and prospective approach to describe the sensation of breathlessness experienced by patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). They found that affective descriptors of breathlessness sensation can lead to long-term behavioral changes.