慢性阻塞性肺病的含义近20余年来,国外文献广泛使用慢性阻塞性肺病(简称慢阻肺、COPD或COLD)这一名称,这是一组慢性气道阻塞性疾病的统称。近年来国内虽也已采用,但不论在流行病学上或临床诊断分类上仍存在一定的问题,其主要原因是对这一名称的含义,在认识上有一定的分歧。有些作者认为,这一名称的使用范围仅包括具有不可逆性气道阻塞的慢性气管炎与肺气肿病人;而另一些作者则认为,凡 The meaning of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease For more than 20 years, foreign literature widely used the name of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (referred to as COPD, COPD or COLD), which is a collective term for a group of chronic airway obstructive disease. Although it has been adopted in China in recent years, there are still some problems in the classification of epidemiology or clinical diagnosis. The main reason is that there is some disagreement on the meaning of this name. Some authors believe that the use of this name covers only patients with chronic bronchitis and emphysema with irreversible airway obstruction; while others argue that where