Screening Heroin Smokers Attending Community Drug Clinics for Change in Lung Function: A Cohort Study.


Journal

Chest
ISSN: 1931-3543
Titre abrégé: Chest
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0231335

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
03 2020
Historique:
received: 05 06 2019
revised: 21 09 2019
accepted: 04 11 2019
pubmed: 25 11 2019
medline: 21 10 2020
entrez: 25 11 2019
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Heroin smokers have high rates of COPD, respiratory morbidity, hospital admission, and mortality. We assessed the natural history of symptoms and lung function in this population over time. A cohort of heroin smokers with COPD was followed for 18 to 24 months. At baseline and follow-up, respiratory symptoms were measured by the Medical Research Council Dyspnea Scale (MRC) and the COPD Assessment Tool (CAT), and postbronchodilator spirometry was performed. Frequency of health-care-seeking episodes was extracted from routine health records. Parametric, nonparametric, and linear regression models were used to analyze the change in symptoms and lung function over time. Of 372 participants originally recruited, 161 were assessed at follow-up (mean age, 51.0 ± 5.3 years; 74 women [46%]) and 106 participants completed postbronchodilator spirometry. All participants were current or previous heroin smokers, and 122 (75.8%) had smoked crack. Symptoms increased over time (MRC score increased by 0.48 points per year, P < .001; CAT score increased by 1.60 points per year, P < .001). FEV Heroin smokers experience a high and increasing burden of chronic respiratory symptoms and a decline in FEV

Sections du résumé

BACKGROUND
Heroin smokers have high rates of COPD, respiratory morbidity, hospital admission, and mortality. We assessed the natural history of symptoms and lung function in this population over time.
METHODS
A cohort of heroin smokers with COPD was followed for 18 to 24 months. At baseline and follow-up, respiratory symptoms were measured by the Medical Research Council Dyspnea Scale (MRC) and the COPD Assessment Tool (CAT), and postbronchodilator spirometry was performed. Frequency of health-care-seeking episodes was extracted from routine health records. Parametric, nonparametric, and linear regression models were used to analyze the change in symptoms and lung function over time.
RESULTS
Of 372 participants originally recruited, 161 were assessed at follow-up (mean age, 51.0 ± 5.3 years; 74 women [46%]) and 106 participants completed postbronchodilator spirometry. All participants were current or previous heroin smokers, and 122 (75.8%) had smoked crack. Symptoms increased over time (MRC score increased by 0.48 points per year, P < .001; CAT score increased by 1.60 points per year, P < .001). FEV
CONCLUSIONS
Heroin smokers experience a high and increasing burden of chronic respiratory symptoms and a decline in FEV

Identifiants

pubmed: 31759961
pii: S0012-3692(19)34224-2
doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2019.11.006
pmc: PMC7078587
pii:
doi:

Substances chimiques

Bronchodilator Agents 0

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

558-565

Subventions

Organisme : Medical Research Council
Pays : United Kingdom

Commentaires et corrections

Type : CommentIn

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Auteurs

Rebecca Nightingale (R)

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, England.

Kevin Mortimer (K)

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, England.

Emanuele Giorgi (E)

CHICAS, Lancaster University, England.

Paul P Walker (PP)

University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool, England.

Marie Stolbrink (M)

University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool, England.

Tara Byrne (T)

Addaction, Liverpool, England.

Kerry Marwood (K)

Addaction, Liverpool, England.

Sally Morrison-Griffiths (S)

Addaction, Liverpool, England.

Susan Renwick (S)

Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group, Liverpool, England.

Jamie Rylance (J)

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, England; Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi. Electronic address: Jamie.rylance@lstmed.ac.uk.

Hassan Burhan (H)

Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals, Liverpool, England.

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