Obesity and Severity of Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
Tadahiro GotoAtsushi HirayamaMohammad Kamal FaridiCarlos A CamargoKohei HasegawaPublished in: Annals of the American Thoracic Society (2019)
In this population-based study of adults hospitalized with an acute exacerbation of COPD, obesity was associated with increased use of noninvasive and invasive ventilation, increased hospital LOS, but was not associated with increased in-hospital mortality.
Keyphrases
- respiratory failure
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- liver failure
- insulin resistance
- metabolic syndrome
- weight loss
- type diabetes
- extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
- high fat diet induced
- mechanical ventilation
- weight gain
- lung function
- emergency department
- adipose tissue
- hepatitis b virus
- acute respiratory distress syndrome
- cystic fibrosis
- adverse drug