Open Access<p>Frailty in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Risk of Exacerbations and Hospitalizations</p>
Author(s) -
Nathan Yee,
Emily Locke,
Kenneth C. Pike,
Zijing Chen,
Jung-Eun Lee,
Joe C. Huang,
Huong Q. Nguyen,
Vincent S. Fan
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.s245505
Subject(s) - medicine , copd , hazard ratio , proportional hazards model , cohort , cohort study , frailty syndrome , population , physical therapy , confidence interval , environmental health , frailty index
Frailty is a complex clinical syndrome associated with vulnerability to adverse health outcomes. While frailty is thought to be common in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the relationship between frailty and COPD-related outcomes such as risk of acute exacerbations of COPD (AE-COPD) and hospitalizations is unclear.