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<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">T-student</span> test was used&#46; If&#44; on the other hand&#44; the variables &#8216;distribution was not normal&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Mann-Whitney</span> test was used<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">&#46;</span> Categorical proportions and variables were analysed either with Chi-squared test or with Fisher test&#44; when appropriate&#46; Values p<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#60;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>0&#46;05 were considered statistically significant&#46;</p><p id="par0065" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Data analyses were done with the PASW software &#40;version 18&#59; SPSS inc&#46;&#44; Chicago&#44; IL&#44; USA&#41;&#46;</p></span></span><span id="sec0030" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0100">Results</span><p id="par0070" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Our study included 89 patients&#44; with a mean age of 68<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#177;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>9 years and mostly male &#40;86&#46;5&#37;&#41; 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presented at least one respiratory symptom - cough&#44; sputum&#44; dyspnoea or wheezing &#8211; on most days and 48&#46;3&#37; presented chronic cough and sputum &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0005">Table 1</a>&#41;&#46;</p><p id="par0085" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">All patients were on severity score GOLD 4&#44; with an average FEV<span class="elsevierStyleInf">1</span> of 38&#46;1&#37; of the predicted values&#44; and all presented chronic respiratory failure&#46; Women had a higher average FEV<span class="elsevierStyleInf">1</span> than men &#40;49&#46;2&#37; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">versus</span> 37&#37; of predicted values&#59; p<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#61;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>0&#46;055&#41; &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0005">Table 1</a>&#41;&#46;</p><p id="par0090" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Most patients &#40;86&#46;6&#37;&#41; mentioned at least one comorbidity&#44; with an average of 3&#46;9 co-morbidities per patient&#44; 83&#46;1&#37; had two or more co-morbidities &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0010">Table 2</a> and <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0005">Fig&#46; 1</a>&#41;&#46; The average Charlson index was 1&#46;9 and 4&#46;2 when adjusted to age &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0010">Table 2</a>&#41;&#46; Comparing the two genders&#44; there was a larger proportion of men with at least two co-morbidities &#40;88&#46;3&#37; of men versus 50&#37; of women&#41; &#40;p<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#61;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>0&#46;004&#41; and a Charlson index of at least 2 &#40;55&#46;8&#37; of men versus 25&#37; of women&#41; &#40;p<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#61;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>0&#46;047&#41; &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0010">Table 2</a>&#41;&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="tbl0010"></elsevierMultimedia><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0005"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0095" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">As can be seen in <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0010">Table 2</a>&#44; the most frequent co-morbidities were cardiovascular diseases &#40;68&#46;5&#37;&#41; and within this pathology the most prevalent was arterial hypertension &#40;57&#46;3&#37;&#41;&#44; followed by ischemic heart disease &#40;18&#37;&#41;&#44; arrhythmia &#40;18&#37;&#41; and congestive heart failure &#40;4&#46;5&#37;&#41;&#46; After cardiovascular pathology&#44; the most prevalent diseases were&#58; osteoarticular pathology &#40;50&#46;6&#37;&#41;&#44; erectile dysfunction &#40;48&#37;&#41;&#44; sleep apnoea syndrome &#40;42&#46;7&#37;&#41;&#44; dyslipidaemia &#40;34&#46;8&#37;&#41;&#44; cataracts &#40;31&#46;5&#37;&#41;&#44; gastroesophageal reflux &#40;29&#46;2&#37;&#41;&#44; diabetes mellitus &#40;29&#46;2&#37;&#41;&#44; depression &#40;15&#46;7&#37;&#41; and cancer &#40;13&#46;5&#37;&#41;&#46; Of the patients with cancer&#44; 3&#46;4&#37; had lung cancer and 10&#46;1&#37; had other cancers &#40;larynx&#44; bladder&#44; liver&#44; prostate&#44; and breast&#41;&#46;</p><p id="par0100" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">With the exception of depression which was more prevalent in women &#40;45&#46;5&#37; 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p<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#61;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>0&#46;024&#41; &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0010">Fig&#46; 2</a>&#41;&#46; An association between frequent exacerbators and gastroesophageal reflux was observed &#40;Odd ratio 3&#46;7&#59; p<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#61;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>0&#46;006&#41; &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0015">Fig&#46; 3</a>&#41;&#46; Of the 43 patients with cough and chronic sputum&#44; 51&#46;2&#37; were frequent exacerbators&#44; compared with 28&#46;3&#37; of the patients who did not present these symptoms &#40;p<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#61;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>0&#46;027&#41;&#46; The frequent exacerbators had also more hospital admissions in the last year &#40;1&#46;2<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#177;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>1&#46;2 <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">versus</span> 0&#46;2<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#177;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>0&#46;4&#41; and in the previous 5 years &#40;3&#46;1<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#177;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>2&#46;7 <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">versus</span> 1&#46;4<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#177;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>1&#46;2&#41; &#40;p<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#60;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>0&#46;001&#41;&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0010"></elsevierMultimedia><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0015"></elsevierMultimedia></span><span id="sec0035" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0105">Discussion</span><p id="par0110" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The results of this study confirm that COPD is associated with several co-morbidities&#44; as it has been documented in other studies&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0005"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1&#44;5&#44;12&#8211;15</span></a>&#46;</p><p id="par0115" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">A predominance of males was noted&#44; a fact that may indicate that women in Portugal had smoked less in the 50&#39;s and 60&#39;s&#46;</p><p id="par0120" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In this study we found several differences related to gender&#46; Women presented less exposure to smoking with the same degree of obstruction and were younger&#44; suggesting that they could be more susceptible to the effects of smoking&#46; This observation has already been described by other authors&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0060"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12&#44;16</span></a>&#46;</p><p id="par0125" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Despite the fact that all patients were in GOLD stage 4&#44; women presented a higher average FEV<span class="elsevierStyleInf">1</span> than men&#44; which may be explained by the younger age of the women&#44; reflecting the correlation between age and degree of obstruction&#44; as it has been suggested by Fletcher and Peto&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0085"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">17</span></a>&#46;</p><p id="par0130" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The most frequent co-morbidities were cardiovascular diseases&#46; The mechanism through which COPD can lead to cardiovascular events is not yet fully understood&#46; Smoking is a common risk factor for both diseases&#46; However&#44; there seems to be a relationship between COPD and cardiovascular disease&#44; which is independent of this risk factor&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0075"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">15</span></a> Studies showed that inflammation of airways can diffuse to systemic circulation&#44; promoting a state of persistent systemic inflammation of low degree &#8211; a fact that together with other risk factors leads to the formation of plaques and to their rupture&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0090"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">18</span></a></p><p id="par0135" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">It is important to highlight the prevalence of patients with COPD and lung carcinoma &#40;3&#46;4&#37;&#41;&#46; COPD is an independent risk factor for lung cancer&#44; increasing risk by up to 2-5 times when compared to smokers without COPD&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0095"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">19&#44;20</span></a> A direct correlation between the degree of airway obstruction and the risk of lung cancer was noted&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0105"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">21</span></a> Chronic inflammation may have a role in the pathogenesis of lung carcinoma&#44; acting as a pro-oncogenic factor&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0095"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">19</span></a> Lung carcinoma was described as a cause of death in 7-38&#37; of patients with COPD&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0015"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a> The increased risk of lung carcinoma in patients with COPD&#44; regardless of smoking habits&#44; would justify the development of lung cancer screening programs for these patients&#46;</p><p id="par0140" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The co-morbidities profile observed in this study was consistent with what has been reported in other studies&#46; In a review of the literature&#44; Chatila et al&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0015"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a> demonstrated that cardiovascular diseases were present in 13-65&#37; of patients with COPD&#44; arterial hypertension in 18-52&#37;&#44; diabetes mellitus in 2-16&#37;&#44; arthritis in 22-70&#37;&#44; dyslipidaemia in 9-51&#37; and cancer in 4-18&#37;&#46; These percentages are very similar to those noted in our study&#46;</p><p id="par0145" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">More recently&#44; the Eclipse<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0060"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12</span></a> study compared the prevalence of different co-morbidities in COPD patients with a control group&#44; it found that patients with COPD presented a higher prevalence of co-morbidities&#46; The prevalence of stroke&#44; heart failure&#44; arrhythmia&#44; gastroesophageal reflux and depression were similar to our study&#46; However&#44; we found a higher prevalence of ischemic heart disease &#40;18&#37; versus 9&#37;&#41; and diabetes mellitus &#40;20&#46;2&#37; versus 10&#37;&#41;&#46;</p><p id="par0150" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">B&#225;rbara et al&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0110"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">22</span></a> performed a study with patients with GOLD COPD stage 2 to 4 and found that the most frequent co-morbidities were cardiovascular diseases &#40;49&#37;&#41;&#44; followed by gastro-intestinal &#40;20&#37;&#41; and metabolic diseases &#40;16&#37;&#41;&#46;</p><p id="par0155" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In our study we only included patients with GOLD stage 4&#44; however Eclipse<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0060"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12</span></a> and SAFE<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0110"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">22</span></a> study included patients with GOLD stage 2 to 4 and we found a similar prevalence of co-morbidities&#46; Eclipse study concluded that co-morbidities appeared to be independent of the degree of airflow limitation&#46;</p><p id="par0160" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">A possible explanation of the prevalance variability of the several co-morbidities in these studies could be the different methods and definitions used to evaluate co-morbidities&#46;</p><p id="par0165" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In Eclipse study&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0060"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12</span></a> compared to men&#44; women with COPD were particularly susceptible to osteoporosis&#44; inflammatory bowel diseases&#44; gastroesophageal reflux and depression and were less likely to develop cardiovascular diseases and diabetes mellitus&#46; In our study&#44; we only found a statistically significant difference in the prevalence of depression&#44; which was more frequent in women&#46; A larger proportion of men had at least two co-morbidities and a Charlson index above 2&#46; A possible explanation for this is the fact that the men were older than the women&#46;</p><p id="par0170" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In our opinion&#44; more studies are needed to understand the impact of COPD in several co-morbidities and to understand the influence of treatment of this pulmonary disease on co-morbidities&#46;</p><p id="par0175" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In this study&#44; 39&#46;3&#37; of the patients were frequent exacerbators&#46; Several studies have demonstrated that exacerbations accelerate the decline of lung function that characterizes COPD&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0115"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">23&#44;24</span></a> Eclipse<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0060"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12</span></a> study showed that there was a group of patients susceptible to exacerbations&#44; regardless of the severity of bronchial obstruction and also that the phenotype of frequent exacerbators was associated with a history of gastroesophageal reflux&#44; low quality of life and leukocytosis&#46;</p><p id="par0180" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Microaspiration of gastric content and&#47;or vagal irritation through gastroesophageal reflux may constitute an airways irritant and trigger a possible mechanism of exacerbation of COPD&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0125"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">25</span></a> In our study&#44; as in Eclipse study<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0055"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">11</span></a> and in that of Rascon-Aguilar et al&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0125"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">25</span></a> a statistically significant association between gastroesophageal reflux and frequent exacerbators was found&#46; In our opinion&#44; further studies are needed to evaluate the impact of this association and its treatment&#46;</p><p id="par0185" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In this study&#44; frequent exacerbators had an increased risk of having at least two co-morbidities &#40;Odds ratio of 5&#41;&#46; A possible explanation for this association was that the frequent exacerbators may have presented a greater systemic inflammation and thus&#44; a higher number of co-morbidities&#46; In order to prove this correlation and to understand the underlying physiopathological mechanisms&#44; more studies are required&#46; Burgel et al&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0130"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">26</span></a> described an association between the presence of cough and chronic sputum and frequent exacerbators in patients with COPD&#44; just as we found in our study&#46;</p><p id="par0190" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">One of the limitations of our study was the fact that only GOLD stage 4 COPD patients were included&#44; so our results cannot be generalized to the whole COPD population&#44; even if&#44; according to Eclipse<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0060"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12</span></a> study&#44; co-morbidities were more frequently present in patients with COPD independently of GOLD score&#46; In our case&#44; not having a control group prevented us from evaluating the effect of age and other possible factors on the prevalence of co-morbidities&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0040" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0110">Conclusion</span><p id="par0195" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">This study confirmed a high prevalence of co-morbidities in patients with GOLD stage 4 COPD and their influence in exacerbations and hospital admissions&#44; justifying a comprehensive and integrated approach&#46;</p><p id="par0200" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">It was shown that frequent exacerbators presented an increased risk of having at least two co-morbidities and a higher frequency of gastroesophageal reflux and hospital admissions in last year and in five previous years&#46; The presence of chronic cough and sputum was associated with the occurrence of exacerbations of COPD&#46;</p><p id="par0205" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Identification of the most frequent co-morbidities may be an important tool for improving our understanding of the complex relation between smoking habits&#44; COPD and co-morbidities&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0045" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0115">ETHICAL DISCLOSURES</span><span id="sec0050" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0120">Protection of human and animal subjects</span><p id="par0210" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The authors declare that no experiments were performed on humans or animals for this study&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0055" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0125">Confidentiality of data</span><p id="par0215" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The authors declare that they have followed the protocols of their work center on the publication of patient data and that all the patients included in the study received sufficient information and gave their written informed consent to participate in the study&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0060" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0130">Right to privacy and informed consent</span><p id="par0220" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The authors declare that no patient data appear in this article&#46;</p></span></span><span id="sec0065" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0135">Authorship</span><p id="par0225" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Vanda Areias collaborated in data collection and sampling&#44; 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Co-morbidities in patients with gold stage 4 chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Comorbilidades em doentes com doença pulmonar obstrutiva crónica estádio IV
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a Serviço de Pneumologia, Hospital de Faro, Faro, Portugal
b Serviço de Pneumologia II, Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte, Hospital Pulido Valente, Lisboa, Portugal
c Serviço de Pneumologia II, Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte, Hospital Pulido Valente, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
d Serviço de Pneumologia I e II, Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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The high prevalence of co-morbidities in patients with COPD is apparently due to numerous different factors and is related to age&#44; to systemic effects of smoking and to adverse effects of some drugs&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0010"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2&#44;3</span></a> Moreover&#44; COPD&#39;s systemic inflammation might also represent the mechanism between COPD and some co-morbidities <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0005"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1&#44;2&#44;4</span></a></p><p id="par0015" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Co-morbidities that are most frequently associated to COPD are diabetes mellitus&#44; osteoporosis&#44; depression&#44; and lung cancer&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0015"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3&#8211;5</span></a>&#46;</p><p id="par0020" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of multiple co-morbidities in patients with COPD severity score GOLD 4 followed in ambulatory care&#44; 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and in the previous 5 years &#40;3&#46;1<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#177;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>2&#46;7 <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">versus</span> 1&#46;4<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#177;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>1&#46;2&#41; &#40;p<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#60;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>0&#46;001&#41;&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0010"></elsevierMultimedia><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0015"></elsevierMultimedia></span><span id="sec0035" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0105">Discussion</span><p id="par0110" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The results of this study confirm that COPD is associated with several co-morbidities&#44; as it has been documented in other studies&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0005"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1&#44;5&#44;12&#8211;15</span></a>&#46;</p><p id="par0115" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">A predominance of males was noted&#44; a fact that may indicate that women in Portugal had smoked less in the 50&#39;s and 60&#39;s&#46;</p><p id="par0120" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In this study we found several differences related to gender&#46; Women presented less exposure to smoking with the same degree of obstruction and were younger&#44; suggesting that they could be more susceptible to the effects of smoking&#46; This observation has already been described by other authors&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0060"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12&#44;16</span></a>&#46;</p><p id="par0125" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Despite the fact that all patients were in GOLD stage 4&#44; women presented a higher average FEV<span class="elsevierStyleInf">1</span> than men&#44; which may be explained by the younger age of the women&#44; reflecting the correlation between age and degree of obstruction&#44; as it has been suggested by Fletcher and Peto&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0085"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">17</span></a>&#46;</p><p id="par0130" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The most frequent co-morbidities were cardiovascular diseases&#46; The mechanism through which COPD can lead to cardiovascular events is not yet fully understood&#46; Smoking is a common risk factor for both diseases&#46; However&#44; there seems to be a relationship between COPD and cardiovascular disease&#44; which is independent of this risk factor&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0075"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">15</span></a> Studies showed that inflammation of airways can diffuse to systemic circulation&#44; promoting a state of persistent systemic inflammation of low degree &#8211; a fact that together with other risk factors leads to the formation of plaques and to their rupture&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0090"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">18</span></a></p><p id="par0135" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">It is important to highlight the prevalence of patients with COPD and lung carcinoma &#40;3&#46;4&#37;&#41;&#46; COPD is an independent risk factor for lung cancer&#44; increasing risk by up to 2-5 times when compared to smokers without COPD&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0095"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">19&#44;20</span></a> A direct correlation between the degree of airway obstruction and the risk of lung cancer was noted&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0105"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">21</span></a> Chronic inflammation may have a role in the pathogenesis of lung carcinoma&#44; acting as a pro-oncogenic factor&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0095"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">19</span></a> Lung carcinoma was described as a cause of death in 7-38&#37; of patients with COPD&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0015"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a> The increased risk of lung carcinoma in patients with COPD&#44; regardless of smoking habits&#44; would justify the development of lung cancer screening programs for these patients&#46;</p><p id="par0140" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The co-morbidities profile observed in this study was consistent with what has been reported in other studies&#46; In a review of the literature&#44; Chatila et al&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0015"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a> demonstrated that cardiovascular diseases were present in 13-65&#37; of patients with COPD&#44; arterial hypertension in 18-52&#37;&#44; diabetes mellitus in 2-16&#37;&#44; arthritis in 22-70&#37;&#44; dyslipidaemia in 9-51&#37; and cancer in 4-18&#37;&#46; These percentages are very similar to those noted in our study&#46;</p><p id="par0145" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">More recently&#44; the Eclipse<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0060"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12</span></a> study compared the prevalence of different co-morbidities in COPD patients with a control group&#44; it found that patients with COPD presented a higher prevalence of co-morbidities&#46; The prevalence of stroke&#44; heart failure&#44; arrhythmia&#44; gastroesophageal reflux and depression were similar to our study&#46; However&#44; we found a higher prevalence of ischemic heart disease &#40;18&#37; versus 9&#37;&#41; and diabetes mellitus &#40;20&#46;2&#37; versus 10&#37;&#41;&#46;</p><p id="par0150" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">B&#225;rbara et al&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0110"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">22</span></a> performed a study with patients with GOLD COPD stage 2 to 4 and found that the most frequent co-morbidities were cardiovascular diseases &#40;49&#37;&#41;&#44; followed by gastro-intestinal &#40;20&#37;&#41; and metabolic diseases &#40;16&#37;&#41;&#46;</p><p id="par0155" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In our study we only included patients with GOLD stage 4&#44; however Eclipse<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0060"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12</span></a> and SAFE<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0110"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">22</span></a> study included patients with GOLD stage 2 to 4 and we found a similar prevalence of co-morbidities&#46; Eclipse study concluded that co-morbidities appeared to be independent of the degree of airflow limitation&#46;</p><p id="par0160" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">A possible explanation of the prevalance variability of the several co-morbidities in these studies could be the different methods and definitions used to evaluate co-morbidities&#46;</p><p id="par0165" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In Eclipse study&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0060"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12</span></a> compared to men&#44; women with COPD were particularly susceptible to osteoporosis&#44; inflammatory bowel diseases&#44; gastroesophageal reflux and depression and were less likely to develop cardiovascular diseases and diabetes mellitus&#46; In our study&#44; we only found a statistically significant difference in the prevalence of depression&#44; which was more frequent in women&#46; A larger proportion of men had at least two co-morbidities and a Charlson index above 2&#46; A possible explanation for this is the fact that the men were older than the women&#46;</p><p id="par0170" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In our opinion&#44; more studies are needed to understand the impact of COPD in several co-morbidities and to understand the influence of treatment of this pulmonary disease on co-morbidities&#46;</p><p id="par0175" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In this study&#44; 39&#46;3&#37; of the patients were frequent exacerbators&#46; Several studies have demonstrated that exacerbations accelerate the decline of lung function that characterizes COPD&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0115"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">23&#44;24</span></a> Eclipse<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0060"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12</span></a> study showed that there was a group of patients susceptible to exacerbations&#44; regardless of the severity of bronchial obstruction and also that the phenotype of frequent exacerbators was associated with a history of gastroesophageal reflux&#44; low quality of life and leukocytosis&#46;</p><p id="par0180" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Microaspiration of gastric content and&#47;or vagal irritation through gastroesophageal reflux may constitute an airways irritant and trigger a possible mechanism of exacerbation of COPD&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0125"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">25</span></a> In our study&#44; as in Eclipse study<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0055"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">11</span></a> and in that of Rascon-Aguilar et al&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0125"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">25</span></a> a statistically significant association between gastroesophageal reflux and frequent exacerbators was found&#46; In our opinion&#44; further studies are needed to evaluate the impact of this association and its treatment&#46;</p><p id="par0185" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In this study&#44; frequent exacerbators had an increased risk of having at least two co-morbidities &#40;Odds ratio of 5&#41;&#46; A possible explanation for this association was that the frequent exacerbators may have presented a greater systemic inflammation and thus&#44; a higher number of co-morbidities&#46; In order to prove this correlation and to understand the underlying physiopathological mechanisms&#44; more studies are required&#46; Burgel et al&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0130"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">26</span></a> described an association between the presence of cough and chronic sputum and frequent exacerbators in patients with COPD&#44; just as we found in our study&#46;</p><p id="par0190" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">One of the limitations of our study was the fact that only GOLD stage 4 COPD patients were included&#44; so our results cannot be generalized to the whole COPD population&#44; even if&#44; according to Eclipse<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0060"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12</span></a> study&#44; co-morbidities were more frequently present in patients with COPD independently of GOLD score&#46; In our case&#44; not having a control group prevented us from evaluating the effect of age and other possible factors on the prevalence of co-morbidities&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0040" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0110">Conclusion</span><p id="par0195" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">This study confirmed a high prevalence of co-morbidities in patients with GOLD stage 4 COPD and their influence in exacerbations and hospital admissions&#44; justifying a comprehensive and integrated approach&#46;</p><p id="par0200" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">It was shown that frequent exacerbators presented an increased risk of having at least two co-morbidities and a higher frequency of gastroesophageal reflux and hospital admissions in last year and in five previous years&#46; The presence of chronic cough and sputum was associated with the occurrence of exacerbations of COPD&#46;</p><p id="par0205" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Identification of the most frequent co-morbidities may be an important tool for improving our understanding of the complex relation between smoking habits&#44; COPD and co-morbidities&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0045" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0115">ETHICAL DISCLOSURES</span><span id="sec0050" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0120">Protection of human and animal subjects</span><p id="par0210" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The authors declare that no experiments were performed on humans or animals for this study&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0055" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0125">Confidentiality of data</span><p id="par0215" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The authors declare that they have followed the protocols of their work center on the publication of patient data and that all the patients included in the study received sufficient information and gave their written informed consent to participate in the study&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0060" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0130">Right to privacy and informed consent</span><p id="par0220" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The authors declare that no patient data appear in this article&#46;</p></span></span><span id="sec0065" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0135">Authorship</span><p id="par0225" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Vanda Areias collaborated in data collection and sampling&#44; 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        "resumen" => "<span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0010">Introduction</span><p id="spar0005" class="elsevierStyleSimplePara elsevierViewall">Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease &#40;COPD&#41; is associated with several co-morbidities&#44; however their prevalence varies from one study to another&#46;</p> <span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0015">Aim</span><p id="spar0010" class="elsevierStyleSimplePara elsevierViewall">To determine the prevalence of several co-morbidities in patients with COPD severity score GOLD 4 &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease</span>&#44; 2010&#41; followed in ambulatory care&#44; in a University Hospital&#46;</p> <span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0020">Methods</span><p id="spar0015" class="elsevierStyleSimplePara elsevierViewall">A questionnaire was designed and carried out in order to characterize COPD and its co-morbidities&#46; Clinical files were consulted in order to complete the data&#46;</p> <span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0025">Results</span><p id="spar0020" class="elsevierStyleSimplePara elsevierViewall">89 patients &#40;87&#37; male&#41; with a mean age of 68 years old&#44; of which 79&#37; were ex-smokers&#44; were included&#46; The average value of FEV<span class="elsevierStyleInf">1</span> &#40;forced expiratory volume in one second&#41; was 38&#37; of the expected values and all the patients presented chronic respiratory failure&#46; Thirty-five patients &#40;39&#37;&#41; were frequent exacerbators&#46;</p><p id="spar0025" class="elsevierStyleSimplePara elsevierViewall">Thirty-seven patients &#40;42&#37;&#41; had been hospitalized at least once due to exacerbation of their respiratory disease in the previous year&#44; and 66 patients &#40;74&#37;&#41; hospitalized in the previous five years&#46;</p><p id="spar0030" class="elsevierStyleSimplePara elsevierViewall">Most of the patients &#40;97&#37;&#41; presented at least one comorbidity&#44; with an average of 4 co-morbidities per patient and an average Charlson index of 2&#46;</p><p id="spar0035" class="elsevierStyleSimplePara elsevierViewall">The most frequent co-morbidities were cardiovascular diseases &#40;69&#37;&#41;&#44; osteoarticular pathology &#40;51&#37;&#41;&#44; erectile dysfunction &#40;48&#37;&#41;&#44; sleep apnoea syndrome &#40;43&#37;&#41; dyslipidaemia &#40;35&#37;&#41;&#44; cataracts &#40;31&#37;&#41;&#44; gastroesophageal reflux &#40;29&#37;&#41; and diabetes &#40;20&#37;&#41;&#46;</p><p id="spar0040" class="elsevierStyleSimplePara elsevierViewall">Frequent exacerbators presented an increased risk of having two or more co-morbidities &#40;Odds Ratio of 5&#41;&#44; as well as a higher prevalence of gastroesophageal reflux &#40;p<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#61;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>0&#44; 0006&#41; and more hospitalizations in the last year and in the previous 5 years &#40;p<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#60;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>0&#44;001&#41;&#46;</p> <span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0030">Conclusion</span><p id="spar0045" class="elsevierStyleSimplePara elsevierViewall">This study confirmed the high prevalence and the association of co-morbidities in patients with COPD severity score GOLD 4&#44; thus justifying the need for a comprehensive and integrating therapeutic approach&#46;</p>"
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