Emily L Graul, Clementine Nordon, Kirsty Rhodes, Shruti Menon, Mahmoud Al Ammouri, Constantinos Kallis, Anne E Ioannides, Hannah R Whittaker, Nicholas S Peters, Jennifer K Quint
BACKGROUND: An immediate, temporal risk of heart failure and arrhythmias after a Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) exacerbation has been demonstrated, particularly in the first month post-exacerbation. However, the clinical profile of patients who develop heart failure (HF) or atrial fibrillation/flutter (AF) following exacerbation is unclear. Therefore we examined factors associated with people being hospitalized for HF or AF, respectively, following a COPD exacerbation. METHODS: We conducted two nested case-control studies, using primary care electronic healthcare records from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink Aurum linked to Hospital Episode Statistics, Office for National Statistics for mortality, and socioeconomic data (2014-2020)...
May 4, 2024: BMC Pulmonary Medicine