The impact of heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on mortality in patients presenting with breathlessness

• Published in: Clinical research in cardiology Vol. 108; no. 2; pp. 185 - 193
• Main Authors: Cuthbert, Joseph J., Kearsley, Joshua W., Kazmi, Syed, Kallvikbakka-Bennett, Anna, Weston, Joan, Davis, Julie, Rimmer, Stella, Clark, Andrew L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.02.2019; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Aged; Beta blockers; Brain natriuretic peptide; Cardiology; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Confidence intervals; Death; Dyspnea - etiology; Dyspnea - mortality; Echocardiography; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Forced Expiratory Volume; Heart diseases; Heart failure; Heart Failure, Systolic - complications; Heart Failure, Systolic - mortality; Heart Failure, Systolic - physiopathology; Humans; Lung diseases; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Mortality; Obstructive lung disease; Original Paper; Patients; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - complications; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - mortality; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - physiopathology; Retrospective Studies; Risk; Risk Assessment; Risk Factors; Spirometry; Stroke Volume; Survival Rate - trends; United Kingdom - epidemiology; Ventricle; United Kingdom; Heart failure; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Prognosis; Mortality; Outcome; COPD

Background Differentiating heart failure from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in a patient presenting with breathlessness is difficult but may have implications for outcome. We investigated the prognostic impact of diagnoses of COPD and/or heart failure in consecutive patients presentin...