Open Access<p>Blood Eosinophilia and Its Stability in Hospitalized COPD Exacerbations are Associated with Lower Risk of All-Cause Mortality</p>
Author(s) -
Ying Zhang,
Lirong Liang,
Shu Zhang,
Yong Lü,
Yang-Yu Chen,
Hongtao Shi,
Yingxiang Lin
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.s245056
Subject(s) - medicine , eosinophilia , copd , hazard ratio , exacerbation , eosinophil , eosinophilic , gastroenterology , confidence interval , immunology , asthma , pathology
Peripheral blood eosinophilic counts are susceptible to many factors and have variability over time. There are limited studies on association of blood eosinophilia with long-term mortality of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients and these results remain controversial. Our aims were to explore the association of blood eosinophilia at index hospitalization and stability of blood eosinophilia stability over 5 years with all-cause mortality of patients hospitalized for acute exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD).