Impacts of coexisting bronchial asthma on severe exacerbations in mild-to-moderate COPD: results from a national database

Autor: Tae Hyung Kim, Dong Chull Choi, David Price, Ki Suck Jung, Sang Haak Lee, Hye Yun Park, Chin Kook Rhee, Yoolwon Jeong, Sang-Hyun Kim, Gyu Rak Chon, Byung Jae Lee, Jee Ae Kim, Hyun Lee, Kwang Ha Yoo
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
ISSN: 1178-2005
1176-9106
Popis: Hyun Lee,1 Chin Kook Rhee,2 Byung-Jae Lee,3 Dong-Chull Choi,3 Jee-Ae Kim,4 Sang Hyun Kim,5 Yoolwon Jeong,6 Tae-Hyung Kim,7 Gyu Rak Chon,8 Ki-Suck Jung,9 Sang Haak Lee,10 David Price,11 Kwang Ha Yoo,12,* Hye Yun Park1,* 1Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, 2Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul St Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 3Division of Allergy, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, 4Pharmaceutical Policy Evaluation Research Team, Research Institution, Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service, 5Big Data Division, Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service, Seoul, 6Division of Chronic Disease Control, Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Osong, 7Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Hanyang University Guri Hospital, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Gyeonggi-do, 8Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Chungju Hospital, Konkuk University School of Medicine, Chungju City, 9Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University Medical Center, Hallym University College of Medicine, Anyang, 10Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, St Paul’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea; 11Academic Primary Care, Division of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK; 12Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine Department of Internal Medicine, Konkuk University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea *These authors contributed equally to this work Backround: Acute exacerbations are major drivers of COPD deterioration. However, limited data are available for the prevalence of severe exacerbations and impact of asthma on severe exacerbations, especially in patients with mild-to-moderate COPD.Methods: Patients with mild-to-moderate COPD (≥40 years) were extracted from Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data (2007–2012) and were linked to the national health insurance reimbursement database to obtain medical service utilization records.Results: Of the 2,397 patients with mild-to-moderate COPD, 111 (4.6%) had severe exacerbations over the 6 years (0.012/person-year). Severe exacerbations were more frequent in the COPD patients with concomitant self-reported physician-diagnosed asthma compared with only COPD patients (P
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