Till today we think that for acute or chronic pulmonary diseases, oxygen is an important therapy as Lung performs one very important work of supplying oxygen to different tissue of body through blood for metabolism but a new study has come to the conclusion that long-term oxygen therapy does not decrease the risk for hospitalizations or increase life expectancy for many patients with mild to moderate COPD, but may lower their quality of life, according to researchers published in The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association. For decades, physicians have prescribed long-term oxygen therapy to patients with COPD based on research demonstrating that the therapy could extend their lives.
However, those studies were conducted in the 1980s and were significantly flawed, according to the study authors. They note that more recent, better designed studies did not replicate the 30-year-old…
