Background In chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the role of specific
comorbidities on all-cause mortality is of major interest particularly with a database …

In chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), comorbidities and worse functional status
predict worse outcomes, but how these predictors compare with regard to different outcomes …

Background Several comorbidities frequently affect COPD progression. Aim of the study was
to assess the prevalence of main comorbidities by gender and disease severity in a cohort of …

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients have an increased prevalence of
cardiovascular disease, cancer or psychiatric diseases, among many other comorbid …

By 2020, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) will be the third cause of mortality.
Extrapulmonary comorbidities influence the prognosis of patients with COPD. Tobacco …

COPD is a complex multisystem disease often accompanied by multiple co-morbidities that
contribute to symptoms, exacerbations, hospital admissions and mortality. Individual …

Background and objective The global burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(COPD) is increasing and COPD patients are at higher risk for all‐cause mortality. We aimed …

Introduction Non-exacerbating patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
are a less studied phenotype. We investigated clinical characteristics, mortality rates and …

Abstract Background Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is often associated
with comorbidities, especially cardiovascular, that have a heavy burden in terms of …

Background COPD is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the world;
however, the most varied amounts of clinical and laboratory characteristics acts in different …