ArticleScandinavian journal of primary health care2026
High proportion of depression and anxiety in younger patients with COPD: a cross-sectional study in primary care in Sweden.
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- Navigating the complexities of multimorbidity in primary health care.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2026Article
- Beyond Spirometry: Dyspnea, Functional Limitation, and Psychological Distress Across GOLD Stages in COPD-A Multicenter Observational Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Observational
- Clinical factors associated with severely reduced health status in patients with COPD and comorbid depression/anxiety: The Swedish PRAXIS study.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2026Article
- Depression and Anxiety Among Patients with COPD: A Nationwide Study from Lithuania.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2026Observational
- Clinical Depression in the Last Year in Life in Persons Dying from Non-Cancer Conditions-Real World Data.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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aimPatients with COPD and concurrent depression and/or anxiety are known to have an increased risk of exacerbations, morbidity, mortality, and deteriorated quality of life. Early detection of depression/anxiety may enable early interventions. The aims of this study were to describe the occurrence of depression and anxiety in primary care patients with COPD in Sweden, and to investigate age and gender differences together with other clinical factors associated with this comorbidity.
methodsA cross-sectional study was performed on a cohort of patients with doctor's diagnoses of COPD. Patients were randomly selected based on the patients' contact with 98 primary healthcare centers and 13 hospitals in Sweden in 2014. Information about self-reported depression/anxiety, patient characteristics, symptoms, and comorbidity, were collected using patient self-completion questionnaires. Lung function data were extracted from medical records.
resultsOf the 2245 patients recruited, 23% (
conclusionsHealthcare professionals need to be particularly aware of depression/anxiety in patients with COPD who are younger, women, current smokers, have comorbid asthma, or dyspnea.
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