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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a dangerous disease that can have serious and life-threatening consequences. Because COPD is often accompanied by other dangerous co-morbidities.
1. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease What is COPD?
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a type of respiratory disease. When infected, the patient has obvious clinical symptoms such as shortness of breath, wheezing, chest tightness, frequent cough, sputum in the neck, fatigue.
Diseases are preventable and treatable. People with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are often elderly, so long-term treatment is needed. Usually people with this lung disease have difficulty breathing normally.
Therefore, if the patient is in the early stages of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, he will see signs of shortness of breath when exercising, body fatigue. As the disease worsens, the patient also finds it difficult to both exhale and inhale.
2. Comorbidities in COPD
Comorbidities are other comorbidities that often co-occur with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Comorbidities are preventable as well as treatable. The impact of comorbidities in COPD includes the following:
2.1 Cardiovascular disease Ischemic heart Heart failure Atrial fibrillation COPD increases the difficulty in diagnosing heart failure. Because in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, the lungs are inflated, causing changes in the electrocardiogram (ECG), pulmonary hypertension, and inaccurate cardiac imaging. The disease also makes it difficult for patients to breathe, increasing the mortality rate.
COPD làm tăng khó khăn trong vấn đề chẩn đoán suy tim ở người mắc bệnh tim mạch
2.2 Lung disease Pulmonary fibrosis Pulmonary hypertension Pulmonary hypertension Pulmonary embolism Lung cancer: worsens symptoms, limits diagnostic and therapeutic interventions 2.3 Metabolic disease Diabetes Obesity Hyperlipidemia Osteoporosis: The disease will increased risk of surgical complications and complications after surgery 2.4 Kidney disease Chronic kidney disease Gastrointestinal disease Gastrointestinal ulcer: Danger during gastrointestinal endoscopy 2.5 Neuropsychiatric illness Depression Anxiety Excessive neurological symptoms will worsen the patient's health such as: Shortness of breath, lethargy, decreased concentration. Affects the diagnosis of mental illness, limiting some treatment options for doctors.
Because of the pathological interaction between co-morbidities and COPD, both patients and doctors need to have a positive attitude in the management and treatment of co-morbidities.
Người mắc bệnh trầm cảm gây ảnh hưởng tới chất lượng cuộc sống
3. Causes of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
The biggest cause of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is smoking. In addition, external factors such as air pollution, exposure to toxic substances, genetics.
When exposed to long-term harmful hormones such as tobacco, toxins, polluted air will cause an inflammatory reaction in the lungs that narrows the small airways causing the destruction of lung tissue, called emphysema .
4. Treatment of comorbidities in COPD
Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are usually elderly, have respiratory failure and have limited communication skills, so it is very important to pay attention to the ability to adhere to drug therapy, especially when the patient prescribe multiple medications.
Co-morbidities should be screened immediately upon diagnosis of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Diagnostic information for comorbidities may be based on patient testimonies, as well as medical and examination records. Anxiety and depression have a great influence on the course and prognosis of COPD.
Due to the pathological interaction between comorbidities and COPD, both physicians and patients need to have a positive attitude in the management and treatment of comorbidities.
Định kỳ kiểm tra sức khoẻ giúp phát hiện sớm bệnh lý và kịp thời điều trị
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