Open AccessFrequency and Severity of Exacerbations of COPD Associated with Future Risk of Exacerbations and Mortality: A UK Routine Health Care Data Study
Author(s) -
Hannah Whittaker,
Annalisa Rubino,
Hana Müllerová,
Tamsin Morris,
Precil Varghese,
Yang Xu,
Enrico De Nigris,
Jennifer K Quint
Publication year - 2022
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.s346591
Subject(s) - medicine , exacerbation , copd , poisson regression , severity of illness , rate ratio , cohort study , incidence (geometry) , cohort , comorbidity , intensive care medicine , emergency medicine , confidence interval , population , environmental health , physics , optics
Studies have shown that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation events are related to future events; however, previous literature typically reports frequent vs infrequent exacerbations per patient-year and no studies have investigated increasing number of severe exacerbations in relation to COPD outcomes.