BODE index versus GOLD classification for explaining anxious and depressive symptoms in patients with COPD – a cross-sectional study

摘要: Anxiety and depression are common treatable risk factors for re-hospitalisation death in patients with COPD. The degree of lung function impairment does not sufficiently explain anxiety depression. BODE index allows a functional classification COPD beyond FEV1. aim this cross-sectional study was (1) to test whether the is superior GOLD explaining anxious depressive symptoms; (2) assess which components associated these psychological aspects classified according stages based on FEV1%predicted 122 stable An additional four stage constructed quartiles index. hospital scale used symptoms. overall prevalence symptoms 49% 52%, respectively. increased increasing but stages. both Anxious were explained by dyspnoea. Depressive dyspnoea reduced exercise capacity. patients. These consequences disease may play role future systems