Does heart failure comorbidity increase hospitalisation and mortality in patients with COPD?
The presence of comorbid heart failure significantly increases the risk of COPD-related rehospitalisation and all-cause mortality in patients with COPD.
In this systematic review, we investigated the effect of HF comorbidity on hospitalisation and mortality of COPD patients. There is substantial evidence that HF comorbidity increases COPD-related rehospitalisation and all-cause mortality of COPD patients. The effect of HF comorbidity may differ depending on COPD phenotype, HF type, or HF severity and should be the topic of future research.
Axson et al. (Fri,) studied this question.