Abstract: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a preventable and treatable disease with some significant extra pulmonary effects that may contribute is characterized by airflow limitation that is not fully reversible. The Global initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) staging has been used to stratify severity of COPD. The BODE index was proven superior to FEV1 in predicting disease severity in patients with COPD. Dyspnea or breathlessness is the hallmark symptom of COPD. Modified Medical Research Council (MMRC) questionnaire is the simple way to quantify the impact of breathlessness on a patient’s health status. The impact of COPD on an individual patient depends not just on the degree of airflow limitation, but also on the severity of symptoms. COPD Assessment test (CAT) scores were used to assess health related quality of life in COPD patients. The present study was aimed to evaluate the correlation of severity of disease (using BODE index) with disease specific quality of life (using CAT scores). Spearman’s correlation coefficients were calculated and showed that both the scoring systems had more statistically significant (P<0.05) correlation when compared on the basis of MMRC dyspnea scale than the GOLD criteria for classification of severity.
Keywords: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, BODE index, COPD assessment test (CAT), Dyspnea, Global initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease, Modified Medical Research Council (MMRC), forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1), forced vital capacity (FVC).
Title: A cross-sectional correlation study of BODE index and CAT score in male COPD patients
Author: Gurpreet Kaur, Dr Promila Mehta, Dr Jaikishan
International Journal of Life Sciences Research
ISSN 2348-313X (Print), ISSN 2348-3148 (online)
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