Comorbidities in COPD: A Population-based Retrospective Cross-sectional Study
S Heck, F Kunze, D Rapp, DD Le, A Bekhit, M Flaig, W Herian, R Bals, S Wagenpfeil, QT Dinh · Pneumologie · 2016 · Heft 02
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Background: COPD is mostly accompagnied by many different comorbidities, which can play an important role in its progression and level of severity. Objective: The present study aimed to systematically analyze the co-prevalence and the odds ratio (OR) of the comorbidities in the asthmatic population of the German federal states Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate. Methods: Using ICD10 diagnoses code from health care institutions, the co-prevalence and odds ratios of comorbidities concerning chronic obstructive pulmonary disease have been analyzed. Odds ratios has been age-sex adjusted for all comorbidities among pa…