Open AccessEvaluation of patients with chronic bronchitis and COPD during 7-year follow-up
Author(s) -
I. Yu. Visel,
Е. И. Шмелëв,
A. A. Visel
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
pulʹmonologiâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.126
H-Index - 6
eISSN - 2541-9617
pISSN - 0869-0189
DOI - 10.18093/0869-0189-2008-0-4-41-46
Subject(s) - copd , medicine , chronic bronchitis , smoking cessation , cohort , pulmonary disease , bronchitis , intensive care medicine , physical therapy , pathology
Recent guidelines define chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) as a preventable and treatable disease characterized by airflow limitation and systemic consequences. Airflow limitation in COPD worsens over years as assessed by FEV1 . Parametric and nonparametric statistic techniques were used to analyze prognostic influence of acute exacerbations of COPD, smoking, compliance, and type of treatment on forced spirometric parameters in a cohort of 191 consecutive patients with COPD and chronic bronchitis followed up during 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6-7 years. This study showed that acute exacerbations of COPD, smoking, and low compliance have negative impact on the patient's prognosis. We conclude that deterioration of health status in patients with COPD and chronic bronchitis could be reduced by the treatment adherence to the GOLD guidelines, smoking cessation and improvement in the patient's compliance.