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IMPACT OF SOME FACTORS ON QUALITY OF LIFE OF ELDERLY CASES WITH CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE

S.V. Turkina1, A.A. Grishchenko2, N.I. Zhernakova2, T.Yu. Lebedev2

1ФГБОУ ВО «Волгоградский государственный медицинский университет» Министерства здравоохранения Российской Федерации; 2ФГАОУ ВО «Белгородский государственный национальный исследовательский университет»

Abstract

40 elderly and senile patients were examined including 20 patients with exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) of moderate severity (experimental group) and 20 cases without COPD, acute diseases and exacerbations of chronic pathology (control group). Impact of COPD was studied for various aspects of quality of life. It was analyzed the nature and strength of the relationship between of quality of life indicators and biochemical survey results.

Keywords

COPD, the elderly, quality of life, biochemical indicators.

Contacts

Жернакова Нина Ивановна – д. м. н., профессор, зав. кафедрой семейной медицины медицинского института, Белгородский государственный национальный исследовательский университет, e-mail: zhernakova@bsu.edu.ru