BACKGROUND Health status provides valuable information, complementary to spirometry and improvement of health status has become an important treatment goal in COPD management. We compared the usefulness and validity of the COPD Assessment Test (CAT) and the Clinical COPD Questionnaire (CCQ), two simple questionnaires, in comparison with the St. George Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ). METHODS...

BACKGROUND Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is usually assessed using FEV(1) to establish the diagnosis and the severity of the disease. However, COPD is now considered a systemic disease. AIM To evaluate the utility of the Health-Activity-Dyspnoea-Obstruction (HADO) score for classifying the severity of COPD and predicting outcomes. DESIGN Prospective longitudinal clinical stud...

The Global initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) staging has widely used in the stratification of the severity of COPD, while BODE (body mass index, airflow obstruction, dyspnea, and exercise capacity) index was proven superior to FEV1 in predicting mortality, exacerbation and disease severity in patients with COPD. Clinical COPD Questionnaire (CCQ), a questionnaire with ten it...

The purpose of this study was to examine the frequency of complementary and alternative medicine usage in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) patients living in the eastern part of Turkey. In this study a descriptive design was used. The study was conducted with 216 patients who were present at the clinic. Data were gathered by the researchers in a comfortable setting through questionn...

BACKGROUND The progression of obstructive airway diseases (OADs) including asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma-COPD overlap syndrome in older adults is not well understood. OBJECTIVE To examine the prognosis of OADs and to identify potential determinants for longitudinal changes in clinical outcomes. METHODS We consecutively recruited 99 older adults (>55 years) ...

Two-dimensional and three-dimensional seismic surveys were conducted across the Oquirrh fault, Utah with the purpose of imaging the fault structure to a depth of about 15 m. Results show that the 3-D tomogram clearly delineates the fault zone and a colluvial wedge, both of which correlate extremely well with the geologic cross-section interpreted from an adjacent trench. The thickness of the co...

The authors present the case study of a 26-year-old woman who developed diabetes in early adolescence and who attended seven CAT sessions. They used phenomenology to analyze therapy transcripts, case notes, and a reflexive journal and extract the major themes. The client's identity had been overshadowed by the development of a "diabetic identity" that the client rejected. Poor adherence was lin...

Generalizing the fact that Scott’s continuous lattices form the equational hull of the class of all algebraic lattices, we describe an equational hull of LFP, the category of locally finitely presentable categories, over CAT. Up to a set-theoretical hypothesis this hull is formed by the category of all precontinuous categories, i.e., categories in which limits and filtered colimits distribute. ...

INTRODUCTION COPD Assessment Test (CAT) is an 8-items questionnaire for assessment of health status in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). OBJECTIVE To evaluate the course of CAT scores during bacterial exacerbations of COPD treated in outpatient setting. METHODS We performed an observational, prospective study including 81 outpatients (57 males and 24 females, aged ...

It is 5 years since the development and first validation of the COPD Assessment Test (CAT) [1], so the review of papers concerning the CAT by GUPTA et al. [2] in this issue of the European Respiratory Journal is very timely. The authors identified over 40 studies using a systematic approach to minimise biases, although they acknowledge that they introduced one bias by selecting papers published...