Observational studyInternational journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease2018
The impact of atrial fibrillation in patients with COPD during hospitalization.
Observational study in International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
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- ECG-based risk factors for adverse cardiopulmonary events and treatment outcomes in COPD.The European respiratory journal · 2025Trial
- A deep dive into atrial fibrillation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2026Review
- Red Cell Distribution Width Predicts Mortality in Critically Ill Patients with COPD and Atrial Fibrillation: A Retrospective Cohort Study.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2026Article
- Impact of atrial fibrillation in hospitalized patients undergoing endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography: A nationwide analysis.World journal of methodology · 2025Article
- Atrial Fibrillation Among ICU Patients with Type 2 Respiratory Failure: Who Is at Risk and What Are the Outcomes?Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Association of red cell distribution width/albumin ratio and 28-day mortality in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients with atrial fibrillation: a medical information mart for intensive care IV study.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2025Article
- Low-dose azithromycin prophylaxis in patients with atrial fibrillation and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.Internal and emergency medicine · 2024Article
- Detrimental Impact of Atrial Fibrillation among Patients Hospitalized for Acute Exacerbation of COPD: Results of a Population-Based Study in Spain from 2016 to 2021.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Risk of Death and Cardiovascular Events in Asian Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Report From the Prospective APHRS Registry.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2024Observational
- Combining bioinformatics and machine learning to identify common mechanisms and biomarkers of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and atrial fibrillation.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2023Article
- Prescribing patterns in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and atrial fibrillation.Open medicine (Warsaw, Poland) · 2023Article
- Value of Preoperative Platelet-to-Lymphocyte and Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratios in Predicting Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation in Patients Undergoing Lung Resection.The journal of Tehran Heart Center · 2022Article
- Integrated Care in Atrial Fibrillation: A Road Map to the Future.Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes · 2021Review
- Risk factors for and predictive nomogram of postoperative hypoxaemia in elderly patients with femoral neck fractures.The Journal of international medical research · 2020Article
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- Detrimental Impact of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Atrial Fibrillation: New Insights from Umbria Atrial Fibrillation Registry.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2019Observational
- Relationship of Atrial Fibrillation to Outcomes in Patients Hospitalized for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbation.Journal of atrial fibrillationArticle
- Atrial arrhythmias in chronic lung disease-associated pulmonary hypertension.Pulmonary circulationReview
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Abstract
Background: Atrial fibrillation (AF) occurs frequently in patients with COPD. There are limited data about the impact of AF in hospitalized COPD patients on other serious health outcomes, such as acute organ dysfunction, severe sepsis, and respiratory failure. The aim of our study was to delineate the impact of AF in hospitalized COPD patients. Methods: We defined COPD populations with and without AF from the National Health Insurance database in Taiwan. The control subjects (patients with COPD without AF) were selected from the population of COPD patients who had no history of AF and were matched to the COPD patients with AF by age (±1 year), gender, and the year of COPD diagnosis (±1 year). The primary outcome was the time to any first event, which included acute organ dysfunction, severe sepsis, respiratory failure, and death during the hospitalization period. Secondary outcomes, which also included acute organ dysfunction, severe sepsis, respiratory failure, and death, were estimated separately over time. Results: The primary outcome probability was higher in COPD patients with AF than in COPD patients without AF, with an adjusted HR (aHR) of 1.169 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.034-1.320), and higher risks of acute organ dysfunction and respiratory failure were also observed in the former group, with aHRs of 1.179 (95% CI: 1.0370-1.339) and 1.176 (95% CI: 1.006-1.374), respectively. Conclusion: Compared with COPD patients without AF, those with AF had a higher risk of hepatic dysfunction and respiratory failure.
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