Open Access<p>Characteristics of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension Assessed by Echocardiography in a Three-Year Observational Cohort Study</p>
Author(s) -
Shinichi Nakayama,
Shotaro Chubachi,
Kaori Sakurai,
Hiroyuki Irié,
Atsushi Tsutsumi,
Mizuha Hashiguchi,
Yuji Itabashi,
Mitsushige Murata,
Hidetoshi Nakamura,
Koichiro Asano,
Koichi Fukunaga
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease/international journal of copd
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1178-2005
pISSN - 1176-9106
DOI - 10.2147/copd.s230952
Subject(s) - medicine , copd , pulmonary hypertension , pulmonary artery , cardiology , exacerbation , body mass index , interstitial lung disease , cohort , lung
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a major comorbidity of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, the association of PH detected by echocardiography and COPD-related outcome in longitudinal follow-up has not been elucidated. In this study, we aimed to investigate the relationship between clinical characteristics of COPD patients with PH detected by echocardiography and various outcome parameters such as COPD exacerbation and health status over a three-year observation period.