From COPD to chronic systemic inflammatory syndrome?
From COPD to chronic systemic inflammatory syndrome?
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DOI:
10.1016/s0140-6736(07)61383-x
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发表时间:
2007-09-01
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影响因子:
168.9
通讯作者:
Rabe, Klaus F.
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作者:
Fabbri, Leonardo M.;Rabe, Klaus F.
We hereby propose an overarching approach to diagnosis, assessment of severity, and management of COPD and its frequent comorbidities. In patients older than 40 years, with a smoking history of more than 10 pack-years, who develop clinical and functional abnormalities compatible with COPD, we suggest not to restrict the diagnostic approach to COPD alone but to search for signs of the more general disorder chronic systemic inflammatory syndrome, with detailed description of clinical and functional abnormalities of the respiratory, cardiovascular, and metabolic systems. The term chronic refers to the slow and progressive development of the abnormalities; systemic refers to the fact that risk factors act directly or indirectly on all target organs simultaneously; inflammatory refers to the association of all components with inflammation; and syndrome refers to the association of several clinically recognisable features, signs, symptoms, or characteristics that generally arise together, so that the presence of one feature alerts the doctor to the presence of the others. Diagnosis of chronic systemic inflammatory syndrome can be established by the presence of at least three of the six components listed in the panel. COPD, chronic heart failure, and metabolic syndrome are diagnosed according to current international guidelines1, 23–25 after comprehensive assessment of lung, cardiac, and metabolic functions. Other chronic disorders, such as coronary and peripheral artery diseases, anaemia, osteoporosis, and rheumatoid arthritis, could be included either as additional comorbidities, as complications (eg, steroid-induced osteoporosis), or as independent modifiers of severity of the chronic syndrome (eg, depression).