The GOLD Scientific Committee respond to five letters to the Editor in relation to the GOLD 2023 Executive Summary https://bit.ly/41wJzhk We thank the authors of the five letters received in relation to the recent publication of the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) 2023 Executive Summary in the European Respiratory Journal [1] for their interest and insightful comments. We address them below, albeit necessarily briefly, under three categories: a global perspective, diagnostic issues, and management of exacerbations. eng
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