{"id":915,"date":"2019-10-01T13:25:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T17:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=915"},"modified":"2021-02-16T14:44:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T19:44:21","slug":"q-tips-copd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=915","title":{"rendered":"Q &#8211; Tips:  COPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patients with COPD can have an exacerbation of their breathing problem for a variety of reasons.&nbsp; Sometimes it is due to infection, but not always.&nbsp; <em>The New England Journal of<\/em> <em>Medicine<\/em> just published research that indicated a very simple test that can determine if the exacerbation is due to infection (and therefore should be treated with antibiotics) is to measure a C-reactive protein (CRP).&nbsp; If it is elevated, it indicates infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patients with COPD can have an exacerbation of their breathing problem for a variety of reasons.&nbsp; Sometimes it is due to infection, but not always.&nbsp; The New England Journal of Medicine just published research that indicated a very simple test that can determine if the exacerbation is due to infection (and therefore should be treated with antibiotics) is to measure a C-reactive protein (CRP).&nbsp; If it is elevated, it indicates infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-copd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1052,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions\/1052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}