Mortality in COPD: causes, risk factors, and prevention

CE Berry, RA Wise - COPD: Journal of Chronic Obstructive …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a leading and increasing cause of death,
the extent of which is underestimated as a consequence of underdiagnosis and …

Predictors of Survival in COPD: more than just the FEV1

BR Celli, CG Cote, SC Lareau, PM Meek - Respiratory medicine, 2008 - Elsevier
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) ranks fourth as a cause of death in the
United States, behind heart disease, cancer, and stroke. Additionally, since serious co …

Mortality in COPD: role of comorbidities

DD Sin, NR Anthonisen, JB Soriano… - European Respiratory …, 2006 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) represents an increasing burden throughout
the world. COPD-related mortality is probably underestimated because of the difficulties …

Comorbidity, hospitalization, and mortality in COPD: results from a longitudinal study

C Terzano, V Conti, F Di Stefano, A Petroianni… - Lung, 2010 - Springer
We evaluated comorbidity, hospitalization, and mortality in chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease (COPD), with special attention to risk factors for frequent hospitalizations (more than …

Changing the burden of COPD mortality

DM Mannino, VA Kiri - International journal of chronic obstructive …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
COPD is a major cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide with an estimated 2.75 million
deaths in 2000 (fourth leading cause of death). In addition to the considerable morbidity and …

Lung function indices for predicting mortality in COPD

AK Boutou, D Shrikrishna, RJ Tanner… - European …, 2013 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterised by high morbidity and
mortality. It remains unknown which aspect of lung function carries the most prognostic …

Analysis of the factors related to mortality in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: role of exercise capacity and health status

T Oga, K Nishimura, M Tsukino, S Sato… - American journal of …, 2003 - atsjournals.org
In this study, we analyzed the relationships of exercise capacity and health status to mortality
in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). We recruited 150 male …

Dyspnea is a better predictor of 5-year survival than airway obstruction in patients with COPD

K Nishimura, T Izumi, M Tsukino, T Oga - Chest, 2002 - Elsevier
Background FEV 1 is regarded as the most significant correlate of survival in COPD and is
used as a measure of disease severity in the staging of COPD. Recently, however, the …

[HTML][HTML] Cause-specific mortality adjudication in the UPLIFT® COPD trial: findings and recommendations

LP McGarvey, S Magder, D Burkhart, S Kesten, D Liu… - Respiratory …, 2012 - Elsevier
Mortality is an important endpoint in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) trials,
although accurately determining cause of death is difficult. In the Understanding the …

Sex differences in mortality in patients with COPD

JP De Torres, CG Cote, MV Lopez… - European …, 2009 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Little is known about survival and clinical prognostic factors in females with chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The aim of the present study was to determine the …