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The impact of secondary pulmonary hypertension in elderly patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Ecaterina Luca*, Nicolae Bodrug
https://doi.org/10.52645/MJHS.2023.1.06
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is considered an important disease in the structure of morbidity and mortality and a rising public health problem with increasing global age prevalence. Exacerbation of COPD in the elderly has a significant negative impact on the clinical and paraclinical picture, daily activity capacity, and quality of life. The need for correct diagnostic management is dictated by the severity of the pathology in the elderly and the high frequency of cardiac complications. Studying the clinical-paraclinical picture and the diagnostic capacity of natriuretic peptides in COPD patients with cardiovascular complications was the aim of the present research.