Clinical characteristics and factors associated with mortality in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: An experience from a tertiary care center in Pakistan.
Ali Bin Sarwar ZubairiHuzaifa AhmadMaryam HassanSajjad SarwarAamir AbbasTalha ShahzadMuhammad IrfanPublished in: The clinical respiratory journal (2017)
Smoking, age greater than 60 years and hypoxemia were identified as factors that increased the odds of mortality in IPF patients, whereas pirfenidone was found to lower the odds of mortality.