Italian survey on prevalence and disease management of chronic heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease comorbidity in ambulatory patients. SUSPIRIUM study rationale and design. R. Griffo, A. Spanevello, P.L. Temporelli, P. Faggiano, M. Carone, G. Magni, N. Ambrosino, L. Tavazzi and on behalf of the SUSPIRIUM Investigators. Background. Chronic heart failure (CHF) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Through shared risk factors and pathophysiological mechanisms, CHF and COPD frequently coexist. The concurrent disease has important therapeutic implications and independently predicts worsened mortality, impaired functional status, and health service use. However, assessment of the comorbidity varies widely according to the population studied, diagnostic criteria and measurement tools applied. Both syndromes have been studied extensively but largely separately, mostly in the domain of the pulmonologist for COPD and in the domain of the cardiologist for CHF. Study objectives and design. The aim of the study is to evaluate in an Italian outpatients setting (10 cardiology and 10 pulmonology centers from the same institution) the prevalence, clinical profile and the routine diagnostic, functional and therapeutic work-up applied by cardiologists and pulmonologists in the presence/suspicion of concurrent disease in patients in a stable phase of their disease. For this purpose, CHF and COPD outpatients will be enrolled in a multicenter, nationwide, prospective observational study. Risk estimation of comorbidity will be based on suspected, documented or patient-reported diagnosis of COPD/CHF. In the absence of documented concurrent diagnosis, each specialist will describe the diagnostic, functional and therapeutic work-up applied. Conclusion. The design of the study focused on the diagnostic validation of the CHF-COPD comorbidity aims to provide relevant new information on the assessment of the coexistent condition in the cardiac and pulmonary outpatients setting and on specialty-related different diagnostic and therapeutic strategies of comorbidity utilized in real life clinical practice. The symptomatic and prognostic benefits resulting from a combined approach to CHF/COPD could outweigh those attainable by treating either condition alone.

Background. Lo scompenso cardiaco cronico (CHF) e la broncopneumopatia cronica ostruttiva (COPD) sono le più frequenti cause di morbilità e mortalità nel mondo. Attraverso fattori di rischio e meccanismi fisiopatologici condivisi, esse coesistono frequentemente nello stesso paziente e ciò condiziona una peggiore capacità funzionale, una maggiore mortalità e un più elevato consumo di risorse sanitarie. La loro compresenza ha inoltre significative ricadute sulla terapia. La prevalenza di CHF e COPD varia largamente in base alla popolazione studiata, al setting assistenziale (cardiologico o pneumologico) e ai criteri diagnostici e strumentali utilizzati. Obiettivi e disegno dello studio. Lo scopo dello studio osservazionale SUSPIRIUM, multicentrico e prospettico, è valutare in un setting ambulatoriale, 10 centri cardiologici e 10 pneumologici nella stessa istituzione, la prevalenza, il profilo clinico e il percorso diagnostico e terapeutico applicato dai cardiologi e dagli pneumologi in presenza/sospetto di compresenza di CHF e COPD in pazienti stabili. La stima del rischio di comorbilità sarà valutata sulla presenza di una sospetta, documentata o riferita diagnosi di comorbilità. In assenza di documentata comorbilità, ciascun specialista descriverà il percorso diagnostico adottato. Conclusioni. Lo studio potrà fornire nuove e rilevanti informazioni sulla prevalenza della comorbilità in pazienti stabili con CHF e COPD rispettivamente osservati dai cardiologi e dagli pneumologi e sulle relative strategie diagnostiche e terapeutiche adottate. I benefici derivanti da una maggiore attenzione e integrazione degli specialisti sulla presenza o sospetto di comorbilità potrebbero avere conseguenze favorevoli sullo stato funzionale e sulla prognosi dei pazienti.

Italian survey on prevalence and disease management of chronic heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease comorbidity in ambulatory patients. SUSPIRIUM study rationale and design

SPANEVELLO, ANTONIO;
2014-01-01

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Italian survey on prevalence and disease management of chronic heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease comorbidity in ambulatory patients. SUSPIRIUM study rationale and design. R. Griffo, A. Spanevello, P.L. Temporelli, P. Faggiano, M. Carone, G. Magni, N. Ambrosino, L. Tavazzi and on behalf of the SUSPIRIUM Investigators. Background. Chronic heart failure (CHF) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Through shared risk factors and pathophysiological mechanisms, CHF and COPD frequently coexist. The concurrent disease has important therapeutic implications and independently predicts worsened mortality, impaired functional status, and health service use. However, assessment of the comorbidity varies widely according to the population studied, diagnostic criteria and measurement tools applied. Both syndromes have been studied extensively but largely separately, mostly in the domain of the pulmonologist for COPD and in the domain of the cardiologist for CHF. Study objectives and design. The aim of the study is to evaluate in an Italian outpatients setting (10 cardiology and 10 pulmonology centers from the same institution) the prevalence, clinical profile and the routine diagnostic, functional and therapeutic work-up applied by cardiologists and pulmonologists in the presence/suspicion of concurrent disease in patients in a stable phase of their disease. For this purpose, CHF and COPD outpatients will be enrolled in a multicenter, nationwide, prospective observational study. Risk estimation of comorbidity will be based on suspected, documented or patient-reported diagnosis of COPD/CHF. In the absence of documented concurrent diagnosis, each specialist will describe the diagnostic, functional and therapeutic work-up applied. Conclusion. The design of the study focused on the diagnostic validation of the CHF-COPD comorbidity aims to provide relevant new information on the assessment of the coexistent condition in the cardiac and pulmonary outpatients setting and on specialty-related different diagnostic and therapeutic strategies of comorbidity utilized in real life clinical practice. The symptomatic and prognostic benefits resulting from a combined approach to CHF/COPD could outweigh those attainable by treating either condition alone.
2014
http://monaldi-archives.org/index.php/macd/article/view/40/30
Chronic Disease; Comorbidity; Health Care Surveys; Heart Failure; Humans; Italy; Patient Selection; Peptides; Prevalence; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive, Observational study
Griffo, Raffaele; Spanevello, Antonio; Temporelli, Pier Luigi; Faggiano, Pompilio; Carones, Mauro; Magni, Giovanna; Ambrosino, Nicolino; Tavazzi, Luig...espandi
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