Quantitative Vertebral Bone Density Seen on Chest CT in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients: Association with Mortality in the Korean Obstructive Lung Disease Cohort.
Hye Jeon HwangSang Min LeeJoon Beom SeoJi Eun KimHye Young ChoiNamkug KimJae Seung LeeSei-Won LeeYeon-Mok OhPublished in: Korean journal of radiology (2020)
The thoracic vertebral bone density measured on chest CT demonstrated significant associations with the patients' mortality and clinical variables of disease severity in the COPD patients included in KOLD cohort.
Keyphrases
- end stage renal disease
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- chronic kidney disease
- peritoneal dialysis
- computed tomography
- prognostic factors
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- patient reported outcomes
- magnetic resonance imaging
- cardiovascular disease
- spinal cord injury
- risk factors
- coronary artery disease
- contrast enhanced
- image quality