Prevalence of different comorbidities in COPD patients by gender and GOLD stage
Conclusions
All comorbidities increased their prevalence progressively up to the last stage of COPD severity, except the cardio-vascular and the metabolic ones which dropped in the IV GOLD stage, presumably due to the high mortality rate in this severe COPD stage. The gender-dependency of comorbidities was confirmed in general terms, even if lung cancer proved a dramatic increase almost independently of sex.
Source: Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine - Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: research
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