ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2020
A New Dyspnea Evaluation System Focusing on Patients' Perceptions of Dyspnea and Their Living Disabilities: The Linkage between COPD and Frailty.
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- Prevalence and risk factors of frailty in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: systematic review and meta-analysis.European geriatric medicine · 2023Pooled it
- Systematic review and meta-analysis of prevalence, trajectories, and clinical outcomes for frailty in COPD.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2023Pooled it
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- Advances in pathophysiology and assessment methods of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with frailty.Chinese medical journal pulmonary and critical care medicine · 2025Review
- Machine learning-assisted construction of COPD self-evaluation questionnaire (COPD-EQ): a national multicentre study in China.Journal of global health · 2025Article
- Impact of Frailty on Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2025Article
- The DOSE index in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: evaluating healthcare costs.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2024Article
- Diagnostic Utility of Specific Frailty Questionnaire: The Kihon Checklist for Hippocampal Atrophy in COPD.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Impact of Frailty on Symptom Burden in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Is Frailty Diagnosis Important in Patients with COPD? A Narrative Review of the Literature.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Review
- Impact of Frailty on Hippocampal Volume in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.Biomedicines · 2021Article
- Stepwise management of COPD: What is next after bronchodilation?Therapeutic advances in respiratory diseaseReview
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Abstract
backgroundAs much as there are unmet needs for brief frailty assessment in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the lack of a simplified and comprehensive dyspnea evaluation system that focuses on the patients' perceptions of dyspnea and their COPD living disabilities remains a major challenge. We developed patient-reported outcome measures for dyspnea-related behavior and activity limitation (PROMs-D), which consisted of the Activity-limit Dyspnea Scale (ADS) and Self-Limit Dyspnea Scale (SDS), while investigated the usefulness of PROMs-D in identifying frailty.
methodsWe administered PROMs-D and frailty status evaluations in 128 outpatients.
resultsWe classified 30 (23.4%), 50 (39.0%), and 48 (37.5%) patients as robust, prefrail, and frail, respectively. There was a positive correlation between SDS and ADS (
conclusionsPROMs-D could be used as the first step for frailty screening in patients with COPD, and we propose the importance of capturing the troublesome nature of living behaviors due to dyspnea in daily clinical practice.
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