Quality of life in COPD patients

Quality of life [QOL] can be severely impaired in patients with COPD. They usually show an accelerated decline in lung function and progressive impairment of physical performance. To study quality of life in patients with COPD and to examine its relationship with the severity of the disease. Quality of life was determined in 40 COPD patients using the St. George's Respiratory Questionnaire for COPD patients [SGRQ-C]. Mild COPD patients differed significantly from other grades of COPD in their total SGRQ-C score, symptoms score, activity score and impact score [p