Early smoking lead to worse prognosis of COPD patients: a real world study

CONCLUSION: Early smoking COPD patients exhibited multiple adverse clinical outcomes, including heavy cigarette addiction, compromised pulmonary function, augmented left ventricular diameter, and elevated mortality risk. Additional, smoking cessation could not bring enough improvement of health state in early smoking COPD patients as late smoking COPD patients. Consequently, early intervention and specialized cessation approaches for younger smokers are of paramount importance in this context.PMID:38528530 | DOI:10.1186/s12931-024-02760-y

Source: Respiratory Care - March 26, 2024 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Jiankang Wu Weiwei Meng Yiming Ma Zhiqi Zhao Ruoyan Xiong Jiayu Wang Rui Zhao Huihui Zeng Yan Chen Source Type: research