Prevalence of Asthma COPD Overlap (ACO) among the Patients of Obstructive Airway Diseases visiting in Tertiary Care Center in Mandhana, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh

Abstract

Asthma-COPD overlap (ACO) has been applied to the condition in which patients have persistent airflow limitations with several features associated with asthma and several features associated with COPD.ACO is a new clinical entity in respiratory medicine that poorly defined and poorly understood among clinicians and associated with poor disease control, higher morbidity and mortality than patients with asthma and COPD alone.