Gender-specific disease trajectories prior to the onset of COPD allow individualized screening and early intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Nation-wide hospitalization databases include diagnostic information at the level of an entire population over an extended period of time. Comorbidity network and early disease development can be unveiled. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an underdiagnosed condition for which it is crucial to identify early disease indicators. The identification of gender-specific conditions preceding the onset of COPD may reveal disease progression patterns allowing for early diagnosis and intervention. The objective of the study was to investigate the antecedent hospitalization history of patients newly diagnosed with COPD and to retrace a gender-specific trajectory of coded entities prior to the onset of COPD.

Material and methods

A population-wide hospitalizatio

SUBMITTER: Hagmann M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10328310 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature