Quantitative Vertebral Bone Density Seen on Chest CT in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients: Association with Mortality in the Korean Obstructive Lung Disease Cohort
Hye Jeon Hwang, Sang Min Lee, Joon Beom Seo, Ji-Eun Kim, Hye Young Choi, Namkug Kim, Jae Seung Lee, Sei Won Lee, Yeon‐Mok Oh
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: ) and clinical variables, including survival, in patients with COPD. MATERIALS AND METHODS: and clinical variables, including survival, pulmonary function test (PFT) results, and CT densitometry, were evaluated. RESULTS: were independent predictors of all-cause mortality. CONCLUSION: The thoracic vertebral bone density measured on chest CT demonstrated significant associations with the patients' mortality and clinical variables of disease severity in the COPD patients included in KOLD cohort.
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MedicinePulmonary diseaseRadiologyDiseaseLungCohortInternal medicineChronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) ResearchBone health and osteoporosis researchScoliosis diagnosis and treatment