Health Condition 1: J449- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, unspecified
Conditions
Interventions
Intervention1: Nil: Nil since it’s an observational study
Sponsors
Dr Satya Roy
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: CASES- 1) Patients with diagnosis of acute exacerbation of COPD defined as acute worsening of respiratory symptoms such as breathlessness, cough with sputum severe enough requiring hospital admission CONTROLS- 1) Clinically stable COPD patients diagnosed on the basis of GOLD guidelines admitted for other reasons in the medical ward or from the medicine and pulmonary medicine outpatient clinic will be taken as controls
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1)Patients with bronchial asthma 2)Patients with bronchiectasis 3)Pulmonary tuberculosis patients 4)Patients on oral steroid treatment 5) Patients with other infective conditions- UTI, sepsis due to other causes etc 6)Patients with other inflammatory conditions-inflammatory arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease 7)Patients with autoimmune conditions- SLE etc 8)Patients with hematological disorders 9)Patients with malignancies 10)Patients with a recent MI/stroke
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| To correlate NLR PLR, Procalcitonin, CRP, clinical outcomeTimepoint: at the time of recruitment | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| nilTimepoint: nil | — |
Countries
India
Contacts
Public ContactDr Mounika Ch
Kasturba Medical College Manipal
Outcome results
None listed