RESUMEN
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a disorder that is characterized by progressive airflow limitation that is not fully reversible, with important extra-pulmonary manifestation. In practice, this is measured as the FEV1/FVC ratio and the arbitrary definition of airflow obstruction is generally taken to be an FEV1/FVC ratio lower than 0.70. The objective of the current study is to find out clinical presentation and asses the comorbid condition along with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients. METHODSA one-year observational study was planned to assess the diagnosis and clinical presentation of COPD patients along with comorbidity as per GOLD-2009 guidelines. RESULTSOne hundred patients of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) were included in our study. Among them, 84 were males (84%) and 16 were females (16%). Most of the patients were in above-50-years age group (as 89% male vs. 87.5% female) and among these, most of the patients were above 65 years (48% male vs. 50% female). The most common presenting complaint was shortness of breath. 10.7% of male and 18.75% of female COPD patients were found to have anaemia. Anaemia of chronic disease and iron deficiency anaemia was commonly occurrence. In our study, it was found that, 14 cases were having diabetes (14%) and 20 cases were having hypertension (20%). None of the patients in my study suffered from both diabetes and hypertension. In this study, 6 (7%) male COPD patients had ischemic heart disease and 12.5% of female patients had ischemic heart disease. CONCLUSIONSShortness of breath was the most common presentation. Males are more prone to develop COPD. Diabetes, hypertension, anaemia, ischemic heart disease were found to be the co-morbid conditions.