Risk factors for respiratory hospitalizations in a population of patients with a clinical diagnosis of COPD.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The purpose of this study was to examine differences between patients clinically diagnosed with COPD with and without obstruction by spirometry and to identify risk factors for respiratory hospitalizations.

Materials and methods

This is a retrospective analysis of all patients diagnosed with COPD at a large academic Internal Medicine Clinic in 2014, who had spirometry performed during the period 2013-2014. Two groups existed: one with obstruction termed classical COPD and another without obstruction. Demographics, comorbidities, prescribed medications, spirometry, respiratory hospitalization, and eosinophilia among other variables were compared between patients with and without obstruction. Risk factors for two or more respiratory hospitalizations during the period 2

SUBMITTER: Veljanovski J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5881524 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature