In brief, this program was described as follows: patients diagnosed with COPD (ICD10 codes: J41-J44) and their diagnosis was confirmed using a spirometer (postbronchodilator FEV1/FVC < 70%) within the 90 days before program enrollment. Patients who met the inclusion criteria received ...
The 2022 International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10 diagnosis code for COPD, unspecified is J44.9. Signs and symptoms Patients typically present with a combination of signs and symptoms of chronic bronchitis, emphysema, and reactive airway disease. Symptoms include the following: Cough, usually...
Patients who had been diagnosed with depression or anxiety within a year before the index date were excluded. We defined the outcome as time to first diagnosis with depression and anxiety. Matched Cox regression models were used to compare the risk of depression and anxiety among patients with ...
Third, since COPD was defined by the ICD-10 code and drug usage, there is a possibility that some patients might have been misdiagnosed with COPD. We relied on our operational definition for COPD due to the absence of lung function data in the HIRA database. Nevertheless, this definition ...
Only 14 in 100,000 people with asthma are predicted to experience a respiratory-related death up to 10 years post-diagnosis, whereas in COPD this is 98 in 100,000. Asthma is associated with an 0.01% excess incidence of respiratory related mortality whereas COPD is associated with an 0.07% ...
9,10 These comorbidities have a greater negative impact in patients with COPD than in individuals without COPD; therefore, a holistic approach to treatment that includes diagnosis and management of comorbidities should be considered.9 Clinical and Economic Burden of COPD COPD is the third leading ...
ICD-10 codes associated with COPD include J41-J44. The corresponding ICD-9 codes are 491–492 and 496 (GBD 2017 Disease and Injury Incidence and Prevalence Collaborators, 2018). Annual COPD-related deaths, DALYs, age-standardized mortality rate (ASMR), and age-standardized DALY rate (ASDR) ...
Conversely, the non-COPD cohort consisted of 293,358 patients without ICD-10 codes for COPD. They noted that those with COPD were associated with being of older age, underweight, ex-smokers, lower income, and having comorbidities such as diabetes, asthma, and hypertension (P < ....
Spirometric COPD was defined by pre-bronchodilator spirometry as the UK Biobank participants did not undergo post-bronchodilator spirometry testing, which is consistent with other large scale epidemiologic studies like the Copenhagen Heart Study [12]. Subjects who reported a previous diagnosis of COPD ...
We defined the cohort using International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) codes in accordance with methods used by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (eTable in the Supplement). We identified the first hospitalization in the year as the index...