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Vitamin D deficiency is associated with the severity of COPD: a systematic review and meta-analysis
... and COPD patients: 1) the study reported the serum level of 25(OH)D with patient number, mean, and standard deviation and 2) the study included con- trols (healthy or patients without ...and COPD patients, ...
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ECG and Echocardiographic Findings in COPD and the Correlation of Right Ventricular Dysfunction with the Severity of COPD
... IN COPD & CORRELATION OF RIGHT VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION WITH THE SEVERITY OF COPD” at Kanyakumari Government Medical College Hospital, Asaripallam, under the guidance of ...
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Colds as predictors of the onset and severity of COPD exacerbations
... score severity between exacerbations coinciding with colds and those occurring when colds were absent was estimated by a generalized estimating equation (GEE) ...in severity score between virus-positive and ...
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Multidrug resistance-associated protein-1 (MRP1) genetic variants, MRP1 protein levels and severity of COPD
... MRP1 was first detected in small cell lung cancer. It has been shown to be highly expressed in the normal human lung [4,5] and particularly at the basolateral side of human bronchial epithelial cells[6]. Interestingly, ...
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Severity of COPD at initial spirometry-confirmed diagnosis: data from medical charts and administrative claims
... Figure 1 shows the derivation of the study sample. The Lovelace Patient Database showed 12,491 patients had one or more inpatient, one or more emergency department, or two or more outpatient encounters with a primary or ...
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Electrocardiographic characteristics of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and its correlation with disease severity
... A detailed history and thorough clinical examination was done as indicated in the performa. Pulmonary function tests were done in all and patients were graded according to the severity of COPD with ...
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Utility estimation of hypothetical chronic obstructive pulmonary disease health states by the general population and health professionals
... the severity of exacerba- tion based on an expert opinion ...the severity of the exacerbation ...the severity of COPD and the extent of exacerbation, such that utility decreases due to ...
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Assessing the importance of predictors in unplanned hospital readmissions for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
... initial COPD hospi- talization among commercial ...failure, severity of COPD, and index hospitalization ...beyond COPD-specific complications and focusing on comorbid conditions highly ...
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Association between Severity of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Lung Function Tests
... and severity of COPD according to ATS score, and comorbidities were collected, as well as clinical data (13, ...for COPD were the obstructive form of chronic bronchitis or ...
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Depression predicts emergency care use in people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A large cohort study in primary care
... Two separate logistic regression analyses were carried out to assess the relationship between baseline variables and ED attendance in the follow-up year and emergency admission to hospital in the follow-up year. Baseline ...
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Serum levels of vascular endothelial growth factor in chronic Obstructive pulmonary disease
... tween severity of COPD and the other vari- ables was investigated by spearman’s cor- relation ...different severity of COPD and in emphysema and bronchitis patients ...
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The Relationship between COPD Assessment Test (CAT) Scores and Severity of Airflow Obstruction in Stable COPD Patients
... of COPD was established based on a medical history of smoking, current symptoms of cough, dyspnea or sputum production and available standard pulmonary function test which was performed by a spirometer (Chest ...
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Different impacts of respiratory symptoms and comorbidities on COPD-specific health-related quality of life by COPD severity
... in COPD patients irrespective of severity of airflow limitation in our ...severe COPD patients, ...and severity of COPD or HRQoL measured by ...
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Clinical characteristics and quality of life in women with COPD: an observational study
... of COPD should take psychological distress and socioeconomic status into account, particularly in women like those in our popula- tion, who were more unemployed than men and lived alone ...our COPD patients ...
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease phenotype desaturator with hypoxic vascular remodelling and pulmonary hypertension obtained by cluster analysis
... with COPD frequently experience nocturnal oxygen desaturation episodes, leading to nocturnal hyp- ...of COPD, including PH, skeletal muscle dysfunction, and cardiovascular dis- ...of COPD-associated ...
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Quality of life and its association with direct medical costs for COPD in urban China
... of COPD provided by the Chinese Society of Respiratory Diseases in 2007 [17]; 2) Received the assessment of lung function at least once in the past 12 months; 3) was able to provide informed consent and medical ...
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COPD assessment test and severity of airflow limitation in patients with asthma, COPD, and asthma–COPD overlap syndrome
... with COPD and ACOS before the entry of this ...asthma, COPD, and ACOS, the CAT scores were recorded in the stable phase at the time of ...of COPD within 1 month and patients with other comorbidities ...
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Budesonide/formoterol as effective as prednisolone plus formoterol in acute exacerbations of COPD A double-blind, randomised, non-inferiority, parallel-group, multicentre study
... with COPD suffer from exacerbations, which vary in severity and ...for COPD exacerbations ...acute COPD exacerbations in the emergency department ...severe COPD, particularly for ...
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Impact of a clinical pharmacist intervention on medicine costs in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in India
... of COPD patients in terms of prevention strategies and inhaler techniques, as well as the use of spirometry for diagnosis, is typically limited ...of COPD in India [2, 6, ...with COPD and help reduce ...
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Neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio as a marker of disease severity and exacerbation in COPD
... There has been a recent focus on differential WBC count in predicting cardiovascular risk of the many cell types used like neutrophil count, lymphocyte count, monocyte count, neutrophil lymphocyte ratio (NLR) is found to ...
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