[PDF] Top 20 Differential changes in quality of life components over 5 years in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients

... worsened over the same follow-up period, improvement of the symptom score could not simply be ascribed to time-related biases in patients’ ...least over a period of years if COPD is adequately ... See full document

... Differences in utility scores by each COPD state be- tween countries could be due to differently calculated al- gorithms or subject heterogeneity, in particular in terms of current symptoms and breathlessness severity ... See full document

... this disease is the fifth disabling disease after ischemic heart disease, major depression, accidents and cerebral vascular ...great changes in the life style of these patients. ... See full document

... above components, while higher scores represent greater comorbidity ...our patients had COPD, the third component of the Ifudu questionnaire was not considered for the evaluation of ... See full document

... COPD patients who improved by at least − ...of patients did not complete the home- based ...COPD patients and this should be considered when generalizing the results to other popula- ... See full document

... of chronic disease, there is increased interest in developing ambulatory models of care that will improve patient out- comes and minimise demand on emergency departments and acute inpatient services ... See full document

... extension, are summarized in Table 1. Inclusion criteria were similar through each trial; patients were over 40 years old, with moderate to severe COPD and with at least a 10-pack- year smoking ... See full document

... Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major cause of chronic morbidity and mortality in the world ...a disease more com- monly seen in men, but now the disease ... See full document

... /FVC, and number of exacerbations in patients with COPD (P>0.05). In the intervention group, a signi fi cant difference was observed in quality of life at 2 months (P<0.001) and 6 months ... See full document

... the patients on room air oxygen saturation, taken the same time as the ...Most patients were older than 60 years, ranked their income as less than the Israeli average, were on a pension, were male, ... See full document

... I patients) of the predicted value for all measurements made over the prior six months; 2) a smoking history of >10 packet-years; 3) no history suggestive of bronchial asthma; 4) no exacerbations ... See full document

... 62.91±8.82 years old ...of patients with COPD undergoing a train- ing program on the vibrating platform as well as in all domains of the SGRQ quality of ...of patients are needed to establish ... See full document

... influencing changes in HRQoL and were controlled in the ...65.5 years, while ...to patients with COPD, there are two possibilities of benefits of ... See full document

... on patients with COPD; 2) compare the effects difference between WBVT and conventional training; 3) be randomized controlled trials (RCTs); and 4) be written in ... See full document

... Multivariable regression analyses were performed to determine whether the COPD group differed from the control group on HRQoL, work productivity, and resource use after adjusting for demographic (reference categories: ... See full document

... acceptable. 12 CFA was adopted to estimate the construct validity. Ideally, the fi t indices met the following criteria: (1) the comparative fi t index and non-normed fi t index were close to 0.90; (2) the incremental fi t ... See full document

... COPD patients with more than one hospitalization per year due to an exacerbation were ...health-related quality of life (measured by the Clinical COPD Questionnaire, CCQ) and dyspnoea (measured by ... See full document

... the disease still remains untamed. The disease has been recognized as one with systemic manifestations and several markers are being tested everyday to possibly reflect the entire disease process, ... See full document

... 42. Bettoncelli G, Blasi F, Brusasco V, et al. The clinical and integrated man- agement of COPD. An official document of AIMAR (Interdisciplinary Association for Research in Lung Disease), AIPO (Italian ... See full document

... COPD patients at baseline in the ECLIPSE cohort, classified by the incidence of hospital admissions dur- ing follow-up ...COPD patients with hospitalized exacerbations compared with those without hospital ... See full document