Study on correlation between six minute walk test and BODE index in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients
Autor: | Babulal Bansiwal, K V Anees, Maneesha Jelia, Satyam Agarwal |
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Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Zdroj: | International Journal of Research in Medical Sciences. 8:3911 |
ISSN: | 2320-6012 2320-6071 |
Popis: | Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is preventable and treatable disease with progressive persistent airflow limitation and enhanced chronic inflammatory response in the airways. Indian council of medical research conducted a study and found that total burden of COPD in India has more than doubled to about 14.84 million in 2011 from about 6.45 million in 1971Methods: It was an open label cross sectional study. It was conducted on patients attending the outpatient department of respiratory medicine, new medical college and hospital, Kota, over a period of one year. 100 COPD patients attending the respiratory outpatient department of GMC, Kota and fulfilling the inclusion criteria’s were included in the study. A diagnosis and severity of COPD was established by clinical symptoms and spirometric data as per GOLD guideline (ratio of FEV1 and forced vital capacity |
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