Clinical characterization of smoking and nonsmoking patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease combined with cardiovascular disease based on propensity score matching
10.3760/cma.j.cn115624-20240126-00073
- VernacularTitle:基于倾向性得分匹配的吸烟与不吸烟合并心血管疾病的慢阻肺患者的临床特征分析
- Author:
Haijie CHEN
1
;
Shaohua XU
;
Jing ZHANG
Author Information
1. 北京大学第三医院呼吸与危重症医学科,北京 100191
- Keywords:
Pulmonary disease, chronic obstructive;
Cardiovascular diseases;
Smoking;
Comorbidity;
Heart failure
- From:
Chinese Journal of Health Management
2024;18(5):333-338
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective:To compare the clinical characteristics of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and cardiovascular diseases between smokers and non-smokers.Methods:In this retrospective cross-sectional study, a total of 735 patients with COPD and comorbid cardiovascular disease who were hospitalized in the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine of Peking University Third Hospital from January 1, 2017 to August 1, 2022 were enrolled, and were divided into a smoking group (603 cases) and a non-smoking group (132 cases) according to whether or not they had ever smoked. Clinical data, blood counts, C-reactive protein, procalcitonin, echocardiography, comorbidities, hospitalization costs and outcomes were compared between the two groups. Propensity score matching method was used to balance the baseline information between smoking patients and non-smoking patients for further paired analysis. Data were statistically analyzed using t-test, chi-square test, and rank sum test. Results:The percentage of females was significantly higher in patients in the nonsmoking group than in those in the smoking group (65.9% vs 13.6%, P<0.001), and body mass index (BMI) was also significantly higher than in those in the smoking group [(24.4±4.7) vs (23.5±4.4) kg/m 2, P=0.022]. Inflammation indicators neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) [3.8 (2.2, 8.1) vs 4.9 (2.9, 8.3), P=0.018], C-reactive protein [1.3(0.5, 8.1) vs 7.9(1.1, 35.1) mg/L, P=0.001] were lower in the non-smoking group than in the smoking group. The ratio of early transmitral flow velocity to early mitral annular velocity (E/Em) values were significantly higher in the smoking group than in the nonsmoking group [10(7, 12) vs 8(7, 10) P=0.030]. The cardiovascular disease composition was dominated by hypertension with a lower percentage of combined coronary heart disease in the nonsmoking group than in the smoking group (22.0% vs 35.0%, P=0.034). The two groups were similar in terms of cost during hospitalization and mortality indicators. Conclusions:Among patients with COPD, smokers exhibit higher levels of systemic inflammation, greater cardiac involvement, and an increased risk of ICU admission than non-smokers. Therefore, they require enhanced daily health management and management during hospitalization.