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RTmagazine-For COPD patients, depression and anxiety are potential risk factors, not simply comorbidities caused by COPD, according to new research out of Montreal. This is the first study to indicate a causal relationship between depression and exacerbations and hospitalizations for COPD.
Almost one quarter of the patients monitored were suspected of having depression at baseline, with nearly one in 10 suspected of having anxiety. The depressed patients not only had a higher proportion of concurrent anxiety than nondepressed patients, they also demonstrated a higher mortality rate, more symptom- and event-based exacerbations and hospitalizations, and longer hospital stays than nondepressed patients.
In patients with anxiety who had at least one exacerbation, the exacerbation lasted nearly twice as long as those without anxiety. No support was found, however, to support research that hospitalizations were affected by anxiety in length or frequency
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Depression Could Worsen COPD Symptom
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