Anemia and Survival in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Dichotomous rather than a Continuous Predictor | Zendy

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Anemia and Survival in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Dichotomous rather than a Continuous Predictor

Author(s) -

Afroditi Boutou,

Sarah Karrar,

Nicholas S Hopkinson,

Michael I. Polkey

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

respiration

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.264

H-Index - 81

eISSN - 1423-0356

pISSN - 0025-7931

DOI - 10.1159/000338792

Subject(s) - medicine , copd , hazard ratio , anemia , gastroenterology , proportional hazards model , cohort , population , hemoglobin , confidence interval , environmental health

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a disorder characterized by high mortality. Hemoglobin (Hb) concentration has a prognostic impact on COPD patients receiving long-term oxygen treatment, but its value as an independent predictor of survival among stable COPD outpatients has not been fully clarified by previous studies.

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