[PDF] Top 20 Severity of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Its Correlation with Serum Interleukin 6 Levels

... Exacerbations, which increase in frequency as FEV1declines, are times at which individuals are at particular risk for death. Mortality is also increased among those who have recovered from an exacerbation. The 2-year ... See full document

... of chronic obstructive pulmonary ...the severity of the ...the severity of COPD when spirometry is not ...significant correlation of disease severity with the ... See full document

... Background: COPD can affect the heart as secondary effects of the disease. The electrocardiography has been seen as a very best tool for early diagnosis of any cardiac changes that may occur as a result of ... See full document

... Introduction: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a progressive inflammatory disease of the lung characterized by chronic bronchitis, airway thickening and ... See full document

... gout disease, or those who used any drugs that might affect sUA levels, including allopurinol, febuxostat, probenecid, losartan, fenofibrate, pyrazinamide, ethambutol, cyclosporine, and heparin, were ... See full document

... dyspnea, chronic cough or sputum production and history of exposure to risk factors and a ratio of FEV1 (forced expiratory volume in 1st second) to FVC (forced vital capacity) ...thyroid disease, liver ... See full document

... affects pulmonary blood vessels, right ventricle, as well as left ventricle leading to development of pulmonary hypertension, cor-pulmonale, right ventricular dysfunction, and left ventricular dysfunction ... See full document

... the severity of the disease (as measured by FEV1 and graded according to GOLD criteria) ...Statistical correlation were found with echo findings suggestive of RV dysfunction in COPD patients ... See full document

... the 6-minute walk, and this may have excluded some patients with more severe ...a pulmonary diseases clinic, individuals with more severe disease were likely to have been ... See full document

... the pulmonary vascular ...in pulmonary vascular resistance. The result is pulmonary arterial hypertension, which in itself can cause further structural damage to the smaller branches of the ... See full document

... exacerbation severity are consistent with the signs of respiratory acido- sis evident in COPD patients with exacerbations ...from Levels I to II and then decreased from Levels II to III (Figure ... 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

... Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a disorder of expiratory airflow has been projected to be the 3 rd leading cause of mortality and 5 th cause for disability as measured by DALY in 2020 ... 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

... According to GOLD international COPD guidelines, spirometry is the gold standard for accurate and repeatable measurement of lung function. The severity of this disease is graded according to the forced ... 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

... than chronic bronchitis ...the correlation between VEGF serum level and COPD severity was significant, as the patients with severe COPD, especially the chronic bronchitis form, had ... See full document

... levels of IL-6 are associated with more impaired exercise tolerance in patients assessed by 6MWT. Therefore, the underlying inflammatory basis of lung disease attributable to sulfur mustard exposure ... See full document

... Increased serum levels of inflammatory factors mainly IL-6 and fibrinogen also play a role in this ...increased serum level of precoagulation biomarkers like ... See full document

... BMI, disease severity, and smoking may also impact levels of the blood lipids and hence, their asso- ciation with ...The severity of COPD may also impact serum lipid ...between ... See full document