The Coexistence of Heart and Lung Diseases in Patients with Chronic Dyspnoea that is Unexplained By Clinical Evaluation

OZET Results: Eighty-three percent of the patients had a diagnosis of heart and/or lung diseases. Ninety-five (38%) of the 250 pa- tients with chronic dyspnoea had lung and heart diseases con- comitantly. Diastolic heart failure was the most common heart disease seen with COPD or asthma. The most common lung diseases were COPD and asthma. One hundred and fifty-five of the patients had a heart disease, with diastolic heart failure being the most common. Conclusion: When it was unclear whether the chronic dys- pnoea was of a heart and/or lung origin based on clinical eval- uation, more than one-third of the patients with chronic dys- pnoea were shown to have coexisting lung and heart disease.