Research Article
Early COPD Diagnosis in Family Medicine Practice: How to Implement Spirometry?
Table 2
Symptoms reported by patients according to the spirometry diagnosis of COPD.
| | | No COPD
| COPD (GOLD I)
| COPD (GOLD II)
| Overall
values |
| | Age (in year), mean (SD) | 54.97 (10.34) | 58.33 (10.59) | 59.88 (8.68) | 0.006 | | Smoking pack years, mean (SD) | 31.26 (16.99) | 38.06 (10.59) | 44.59 (24.99) | 0.001 | | FEV1, % predicted, mean (SD) | 90.88 (15.14) | 88.06 (7.89) | 60.92 (13.09) | <0.001 | |
FEV1/FVC %, mean (SD) | 82.43 (12.98) | 64.84 (3.90) | 58.56 (8.79) | <0.001 | | Symptoms, (%) | | | | | | Cough | 115 (58.67) | 11 (61.11) | 20 (62.50) | 0.908 | | Cough with sputum | 75 (38.27) | 8 (44.44) | 16 (50.00) | 0.424 | | Dyspnea MRC ≥ 2 scale | 127 (64.80) | 10 (55.56) | 24 (75.00) | 0.348 | | Wheezing | 75 (38.27) | 8 (44.44) | 15 (46.88) | 0.599 | | Respiratory infections* | 37 (18.88) | 3 (16.67) | 9 (28.17) | 0.448 | | Number of symptoms | | | | | | 0 | 6 (3.06) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.00) | 0.456 | | 1 | 59 (30.10) | 6 (33.33) | 6 (18.75) | 0.384 | | 2 | 60 (30.61) | 7 (38.89) | 12 (37.50) | 0.604 | | 3+ | 71 (36.22) | 5 (27.78) | 14 (43.75) | 0.517 |
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The infection rate refers to the respiratory infection in the last year.
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