[PDF] Top 20 A Study on Bode Index as a Predictor of Severity and Systemic Involvement in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

... effective index for assessing the severity of ...that BODE index would fulfill this ...the index in predicting the mortality and hospitalization in patients with ...our ... See full document

... and pulmonary blood vessels are well known to complicate the clinical course of COPD and co-relate inversely with ...survival. Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is the primary cardiovascular ... See full document

... capacity, BODE index, GOLD status or modified Medical Research Council (mMRC) dyspnoea ...our study only excluded COPD patients with other pulmon- ary conditions, rapid lethal disease ... See full document

... multidimensional disease severity measured using either the BODE or SAFE indices was associated with the severity and impact of ...previous study investigating the factors contributing ... See full document

... the severity of the disease increased, the mean body mass index ...the severity of the disease ...Similar study done by Yamauchi Y et al, proved that overweight and obese ... See full document

... and BODE-index arose from differ- ent patient ...The BODE-index originated in a study of a sample of patients (recruited in hospitals), who are gener- ally more seriously ...the ... See full document

... the study is voluntary and that I am free to withdraw at any time without giving reason, without my legal rights being ...clinical study, others working on the sponsor’s behalf, the ethical committee and ... See full document

... Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an important risk factor for atherosclerosis 3-5 ...better predictor of all-cause and cardiac-specific mortality than established risk ... See full document

... our study. First, as this is a retrospective study, a prospective study is needed to prove the clinical ...Our study had a lack of indirect medical expense data related to COPD and ... See full document

... our study, the univariate analysis Charlson score increased significantly with increasing disease severity (Table 2), but in the multivariate regression analysis, COPD severity was not ... See full document

... of patients with GOLD 2 - 3 in our series was very small, we showed a trend towards an association between unfavorable survival and severity of ...of severity of COPD in multivariate ...and ... See full document

... this study, we found no significant association between pulmonary indices and BMI or ...and severity of airflow obstruction (39), however, some of them reported a decrease in BMI at late stages of ... See full document

... this study was that our follow-up period was relatively ...independent predictor of CRP, IL-6, and fibrinogen in COPD, 32 and we accept that further longitudinal studies ... See full document

... in systemic infl ammation in our patients, as ...the severity of their airfl ow obstruction precluded them to achieve and sustain these high ...induce systemic infl ammation in patients ... See full document

... and severity of inflammation may also be estimated by measurement of oxidative stress and concentrations of inflammatory mediators and acute-phase proteins ...a predictor of lung function decline and ... See full document

... COPD patients compared to healthy controls [2], and both seem to rise even more during acute COPD exacerbations ...cardiovascular disease and mortality in COPD ...in patients with COPD compared to ... See full document

... COPD patients and these patients are at high risk of both acute and chronic kidney ...COPD patients, observed in 10.2% of patients, particularly if they age ≥ 75 ...COPD patients ... See full document

... BMI patients also have poor quality of life and increased risk of exacerbation 84 ...A study by Maurizio et al 82 evaluated COPD patients of specific phenotype D and pulmonary hypertension, ... See full document

... training, patients were instructed to perform the movement in the primitive diagonal on the dominant upper limb, for 2 minutes in the standing position, beginning with half kilogram (kg) of weight and increasing ... See full document

... of patients with moderate, severe, very severe COPD was statically significant between moderate to severe and very severe but not between severe and very severe for both LDL and Total cholesterol ...with ... See full document