A comparison of COPD patients with and without ACOS in the ECLIPSE study. Issue 5 (17th March 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wurst, Keele E.; Rheault, Tara R.; Edwards, Lisa; Tal-Singer, Ruth; Agusti, Alvar; Vestbo, Jørgen
• Is Part Of: European respiratory journal. Volume 47:Issue 5(2016)
• Page Start: 1559
• Page End: 1562
• Publication Date: 2016-03-17
• Subjects: Respiratory organs -- Diseases -- Periodicals; Respiration -- Periodicals; 616.2
• DOI: 10.1183/13993003.02045-2015
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0903-1936

Abstract

There is growing interest in asthma–chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) overlap syndrome (ACOS) [1, 2]. Yet, there is no consensus on the best definition of ACOS [1, 2] and, therefore, it is difficult to appropriately characterise these patients. Here, we compare the main clinical characteristics and outcomes of COPD patients with and without ACOS in the ECLIPSE cohort [3] according to six different definitions of ACOS. ECLIPSE offers an opportunity to examine ACOS in a large well-characterised COPD cohort followed over 3 years http://ow.ly/Zcycr