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Depressive Symptoms and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Author(s) -
Tze Pin Ng
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
archives of internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3679
pISSN - 0003-9926
DOI - 10.1001/archinte.167.1.60
Subject(s) - medicine , copd , depression (economics) , hazard ratio , prospective cohort study , confidence interval , odds ratio , quality of life (healthcare) , exacerbation , hospital anxiety and depression scale , physical therapy , anxiety , psychiatry , nursing , economics , macroeconomics
Depressive symptoms are common among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but depression's impact on COPD outcomes has not been fully investigated. We evaluated the impact of comorbid depression on mortality, hospital readmission, smoking behavior, respiratory symptom burden, and physical and social functioning in patients with COPD.

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