Use of antidiabetic medications and risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation requiring hospitalization: a disease risk score-matched nested case–control study

Use of antidiabetic medications and risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation requiring hospitalization: a disease risk score-matched nested case–control study

Abstract Background Exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) severely impacts the quality of life and causes high mortality and morbidity. COPD is involved with systemic and pulmonary inflammation, which may be attenuated with antidiabetic agents exerting anti-inflammatory effect...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Meng-Ting Wang, Jyun-Heng Lai, Ya-Ling Huang, Feng-Chih Kuo, Yun-Han Wang, Chen-Liang Tsai, Min-Yu Tu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-12-01
Series:Respiratory Research
Subjects:
Antidiabetic agents
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Diabetes mellitus
COPD exacerbation
Observational study
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12931-020-01547-1

Internet

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12931-020-01547-1

Similar Items