Reframing disease elimination: an update from the Lancet Commission on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

COPD remains a major global cause of morbidity and mortality, but the Lancet Commission’s updated framework argues its global burden can be substantially reduced through lifelong lung health.

• Why it matters: The gap is that COPD care has focused too late on detecting and treating late physiological impairment, despite major drivers like harmful exposures and health inequities across the life course.
• What they did: The Review revisits the Commission’s elimination vision, assesses progress since 2022, and proposes a unified framework spanning lung development and ageing biology, precision medicine, patient-centred outcomes, and regulatory reform.
• The result: It reframes COPD as biologically complex and modifiable, calling for earlier recognition, biological stratification, and proactive equitable prevention and care, with success measured by function, survival, and daily wellbeing.

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