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A Study on Clinical Profile and Common Comorbid Conditions among Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Patients in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Eastern India

BACKGROUND 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 FEV 1 /FVC ratio and the arbitrary definition of airflow obstruction is generally taken to be an FEV 1 /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. A one-year observational study was planned to assess the diagnosis and clinical presentation of COPD patients along with comorbidity as per GOLD-2009 guidelines. male COPD patients had ischemic heart disease and 12.5% of female patients had ischemic heart disease. Shortness 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.