[PDF] Top 20 Evaluation of Cardiovascular Changes in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Its correlation with the disease severity

... and pulmonary artery hypertension, which suggests that acidemia and hypercapnia are vital contributing elements to impaired right ventricular function in COPD ...increases pulmonary arterial pressure in a ... See full document

... accurate evaluation of treatment effect on COPD exacerbations, alternative analytical methods based, for example, on pre- dictive mathematical models such as hidden Markov chains or Bayesian forecasting should be ... See full document

... Results: The study included 106 COPD patients and 110 healthy controls. The mean sUA levels were significantly higher in patients with COPD compared to healthy controls (p<0.05). Mean sUA levels were compared with ... See full document

... Research in recent years has shown that non- communicable diseases can be associated with psychiatric changes in the body. Consequently, illnesses such as CNS disorder and cerebrovascular accidents, myocardial ... See full document

... and chronic bacterial infection have all been proposed to have a role ...autoimmune disease characterized by the presence of antielastin antibody and T-helper type 1 [T(H)1] responses, which correlates with ... See full document

... severe disease. However, because this study was performed in a pulmonary diseases clinic, individuals with more severe disease were likely to have been ... See full document

... COPD severity were classified according to GINA [1] and GOLD [2] criteria, respect- ...predominant chronic bronchitis and predominant emphysema were ... See full document

... whether severity of airflow obstruction (measured by GOLD stage) and comorbidity (measured by the Charlson index) were independently related, a multivariate regres- sion analysis (Table 5) was ...Pearson ... See full document

... Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is one of the leading cause of chronic morbidity and mortality ...cardiac changes seen in the patients suffering from ...echocardiographic ... See full document

... The study outcomes also show minimally improved respiratory parameters in cases taking nortriptyline during the study period. These increments with borderline statistical significance are minimal changes that are ... See full document

... Data were analyzed using SPSS-PC (Version 15.0, SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). All indices are expressed as mean±SD. The relationship between variables of patients was calculat- ed by Pearson’s correlation ... See full document

... These changes are due to an increase in proteolytic activity and a decrease in collagen content and may be partially reversible if the patient is adequately renourished 65,66 ... See full document

... COPD severity has a direct effect on ATS criteria, and ATS clinical score has a direct correlation with many spirometric ...of severity of obstruction, which have led to more accurate treatment of ... See full document

... different disease stages exist and that only some of them may be mimicked in animal ...simple disease definition has been difficult to ...of disease severity into four stages has been proposed ... See full document

... to its high prevalence and the impact that it exerts on morbidity and ...the correlation between the severity of COPD and the development of ...and pulmonary vascular remodel- ing in the form ... See full document

... to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), which is widely known as respiratory disease, biomarkers known to be associated with respiratory diseases and COPD itself were converted ... See full document

... strong correlation between the total cost incurred by patients for COPD management and the severity of the disease and which is in concordance with those found in international ... See full document

... fering from advanced disease. First, results of sputum cultures in the two subgroups were compared (chi-square test). Second, after manual removal of the OTUs present in only one sample from the OTU table, the ... See full document

... the obstructive diseases vary extensively, a fact that is readily obvious to clinical ...location, severity of disease and quantify the extent, as well as the small airway disease ... See full document

... with pulmonary function test at the Department of Physiology, R G Kar Medical Collegeand classified into mild, moderate, severe and very severe COPD according to GOLD ...the correlation with the ... See full document