The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) is a non-profit organization started by the World Health Organization and the US National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in 1997 to improve care for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
[3] This organization issues recommendations for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and related medical conditions.
GOLD issued its first formal recommendations in 2001.
[2] Their approach departed from previous medical guidelines in two significant respects: The GOLD grading system for classifying the severity of COPD is widely used worldwide.
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