Health status deterioration in subjects with mild to moderate airflow obstruction, a six years observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with COPD need to cope with a disabling disease, which leads to health status impairment.

Aim

To investigate the long term change of health status in subjects with mild to moderate airflow obstruction and to compare this to subjects without airflow obstruction, with and without a smoking history. Second, to investigate the factors potentially associated to rapid health status decline in our total cohort.

Methods

Two hundred and one subjects were included. Generic [Short form 36 health survey (SF36) and EuroQol - 5 dimensions (EQ-5D)] and disease specific [Clinical COPD questionnaire (CCQ) and COPD Assessment Test (CAT)] health status questionnaires were regularly repeated over a six years period. Other functional outcomes comprised measures of lung

SUBMITTER: Rodrigues FM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6525445 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature