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Persons with asthma or COPD found through community outreach had improvements in lung function and quality of life over 1 year in a randomized trial.

SAN DIEGO — Receiving treatment from a lung specialist for undiagnosed COPD or asthma lowered annual respiratory illness-related health care usage, according to research presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.Data from this study were also simultaneously published in The New England Journal of Medicine.