• 1. Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Third People's Hospital of Chengdu, Chengdu 610031, China;
  • 2. School of Clinical Medicine, Chengdu University of TCM, Chengdu 610072, China;
  • 3. Department of Respiratory, the Third People's Hospital of Chengdu, Chengdu 610031, China;
  • 4. Department of Laboratory Medicine, the Third People's Hospital of Chengdu, Chengdu 610031, China;
  • 5. Office of Laboratory Medicine, the Third People's Hospital of Chengdu, Chengdu 610031, China;
WANG Fei, Email: wangfei896@163.com
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Objective To analyze the association between the acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD) (syndrome of phlegm-heat obstructing lung) and clinical indicators related to COPD. Method AECOPD in-patients and out-patients were enrolled from the Third People's Hospital of Chengdu from January 2013 to January 2014. The patients were grouped to Tanre Syndrome and non-Tanre Syndrome according to their clinical symptoms, signs and tongue, pulse. All patients underwent the following tests including routine blood test, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, lung function, blood gas analysis, C-reaction protein (CRP), procalcitonin (PCT) and other clinically relevant indicators. The association between AECOPD and clinically relevant indicators were analyzed by using SPSS 19.0 software. Results A total of 194 AECOPD patients were included, of which 88 patients were syndrome of phlegm-heat obstructing lung and 106 were non syndrome of phlegm-heat obstructing lung according to the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) classifications. The results of single factor analysis showed that age (Z=-4.848, P=0.000) and course of disease (Z=-2.455, P=0.014) were associated with syndrome of phlegm-heat obstructing lung. While further logistic regression analysis showed that age (r=0.090, P=0.000) and the level of CRP (r=-0.008, P=0.000) were associated with syndrome of phlegm-heat obstructing lung. Conclusion Syndrome of phlegm-heat obstructing lung is the major clinical TCM syndrome of AECOPD. Syndrome of phlegm-heat obstructing lung is associated with age and level of CRP.

Citation: TANG Bin, CHEN Min, LIAN Xiang-zhong, ZHU Qiao-ling, FU Min, ZHANG Tong-tong, WANG Fei. Study of the Correlation between the Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (Syndrome of Phlegm-heat Obstructing Lung) and the Clinically Relevant Indicators. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2016, 16(8): 876-881. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.20160135 Copy

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