Prevalence of comorbidities in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients: A meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study compares the prevalence rates of comorbidities between chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and non-COPD control patients reported in literature.

Method

Literature was searched in several electronic databases. After the selection of studies by following précised eligibility criteria, meta-analyses of odds ratios (ORs) were carried out with subgroup and sensitivity analyses under random effects model.

Results

Eleven studies (47,695,183 COPD and 47,924,876 non-COPD control patients' data) were used for meta-analysis. Average age of COPD patients was 66.66 ± 8.72 years of whom 55.4 ± 11.9% were males. The prevalence of cardiovascular comorbidities [OR 1.90, 95% confidence interval (95% CI) 1.59-2.28; P < .00001], cerebrovascular comorbiditie

SUBMITTER: Yin HL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5428602 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature