COPD Patients in the Study Population
Risk factors for respiratory hospitalizations in a population of patients with a clinical diagnosis of COPD
... of COPD in some but not all ...167 patients with COPD had eosinophilia defined as 200 eosinophils/ µ L or 2% of the total leukocyte count during a respiratory hospital admission for COPD and ...
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A home telehealth program for patients with severe COPD: The PROMETE study
... Our study population was made by COPD patients with severe airflow obstruction (mean FEV 1 38.9%), on long-term home oxygen therapy, with multiple comorbidities (Charl- son index score of ...
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Hemoglobin and mortality in patients with COPD: a nationwide population-based cohort study
... in COPD is related to increased mortality, to our knowledge, there are no studies that evaluated the association between anemia and long-term mortality of COPD in the general ...Our study also ...
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Differences in the risk of mood disorders in patients with asthma-COPD overlap and in patients with COPD alone: a nationwide population-based retrospective cohort study in Korea
... nationwide population-based retrospective cohort study using the Korean National Sample Cohort database between 1 January, 2002, and 31 December, ...2013. Patients who were diagnosed with COPD ...
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Lung and kidney: a dangerous liaison? A population-based cohort study in COPD patients in Italy
... This study has several ...available. COPD diagnosis was based on ICD-9-CM codes, without spirometry data, and the limited utility of these codes to define COPD has been ...of COPD ...
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Long-term oxygen therapy in COPD patients: population-based cohort study on mortality
... our study, in accordance to newer data, does ...for patients aged #65 in both incident and prevalent LTOT ...younger patients aged 40–50 truly reflects the higher risk of this group, with a more ...
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Guideline adherence in hospital recruited and population based COPD patients
... this study is the ability to provide overall guideline adherence in both population-based and hospital recruited COPD ...our study is the first of its kind to be conducted in ...the ...
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Risk and impact of herpes zoster among COPD patients: a population based study, 2009–2014
... Our study has some ...of COPD; therefore, we selected patients using ICS consider- ing them to suffer with more severe COPD than patients without ICS ...
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Early detection of COPD patients in GOLD 0 population: an observational non-interventional cohort study - MARKO study
... of COPD in pre- symptomatic stage before clinical diagnosis and clinically documented end organ ...of COPD with high morbidity and early mortality, our aim is to try to develop and identify simple tools and ...
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Characteristics of COPD patients initiating treatment with aclidinium or tiotropium in primary care in Catalonia: a population-based study
... Dovepress Monteagudo et al in the risk of exacerbations. 16 More recently, additional LAMAs have been introduced in the armamentarium for the long-term treatment of patients with COPD. Among them, ACL is a ...
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Serum C-Reactive Protein Level in COPD Patients and Normal Population
... developing COPD in the future by measuring inflammatory markers in ...of patients and severity of dyspnea as with increased severity of disease according to MMRC scale), the mean CRP level increased as well ...
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Is COPD associated with periodontal disease? A population-based study in Spain
... with COPD compared to their age- and sex-matched non-COPD controls, after controlling for possible ...Among COPD subjects, older age, high educational level, less frequent visit to the dentist, and ...
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Long-term effects of gastrectomy in patients with spirometry-defined COPD and patients at risk of COPD: a case-control study
... this study included only Japanese patients, in whom the prevalence of emphysema type and weight loss is dif- ferent from that seen in ...our study population, possibly because the morbidity of ...
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Incidence of utilization- and symptom-defined COPD exacerbations in hospital- and population-recruited patients
... our study is that we included both a population-based and a hospital-based group of COPD patients and that the analyses were performed on both groups highlighting the importance of source ...a ...
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Determinants of exacerbation risk in patients with COPD in the TIOSPIR study
... ECLIPSE study, 5 a history of sputum- producing cough in our patients did not predict those more likely to ...this population most events were driven by respira- tory rather than cardiac ...
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An evaluation of early medication use for COPD: a population-based cohort study
... this study is the first to examine the initiation of first medications and the next sequential medication changes for patients with newly diagnosed ...our study is the longitudinal design of our ...
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Scabies increased the risk and severity of COPD: a nationwide population-based study
... Male patients and elderly patients had increased risks of COPD, especially in patients older than 70 ...cohort study. 29,30 In addition, patients with scabies with HTN, CHF, CHD, ...
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Resource Use Study in COPD (RUSIC): A prospective Study to Quantify the Effects of COPD Exacerbations on Health Care Resource Use Among COPD Patients
... present study showed a high prevalence of COPD exacer- bations, which likely impacted on ...of COPD increases in the population and available resources become more limited, we urgently need ...
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Statins dose-dependently exert a chemopreventive effect against lung cancer in COPD patients: a population-based cohort study
... well-selected patients must compare standard approaches to obtain this crucial ...our study, we used PSs to match age, sex, CCI, diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, urbanization level, and monthly ...
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Risk and temporal order of disease diagnosis of comorbidities in patients with COPD: a population health perspective
... that patients with COPD are in higher risk of developing certain comorbidities than patients without ...The study results, as well as ongoing research on time-related analyses of disease ...
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