Cardiovascular disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease share common risk factors and pathogenetic links that aggravate each other's course, complicating diagnosis and treatment.
This review highlights the shared risk factors, pathophysiological mechanisms, and clinical challenges in managing patients with comorbid COPD and cardiovascular disease.
Comorbidity is one of the most significant problems of modern healthcare. Numerous studies have analyzed the possible pathogenetic mechanisms and relationships between a wide variety of diseases. Cardiovascular (CVD) and pulmonary diseases, in particular chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), have a number of the same risk factors and pathogenetic links, which aggravate each other's course. Moreover, CVD and COPD are among the most common diseases in the world. This review provides up-to-date information on the prevalence, risk factors and pathophysiological mechanisms underlying this unfavorable combination of diseases. Some problems of diagnosis and treatment of patients with COPD and CVD are also discussed.
Chaulin et al. (Fri,) conducted a review in Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease share common risk factors and pathogenetic links that aggravate each other's course, complicating diagnosis and treatment.