Use of BODE Index to Assess Prognosis of Patients with COPD.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a preventable and treatable disease characterized by airflow limitation which is irreversible or partially reversible. COPD is associated with morbidity and increased mortality. The risk of death in patients with COPD is traditionally graded with the use of the forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV₁), but it correlates better with recently developed the BODE index- (B) Body mass index; (O) airflow obstruction measured by the forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV₁); (D) dyspnoea measured by the modified Medical Research Council (MRC) scale; and (E) exercise capacity measured by the 6 minute walk distance (6MWD). This prospective study was conducted in outpatient department of Sheikh Sayera Khatun Medical College Hospital, Goplaganj, Bangladesh from June 2016 to November 2018. Among total 126 patients, mean age was 60.63.0±10.65, male 94 and female 32, 94 smokers, 32 non-smokers. During the study period, 20 patients died, 12 from non-respiratory causes and 8 from pulmonary causes (corpulmonale and respiratory failure). All patients died from respiratory causes had BODE score 10. The higher the BODE score points, the higher the risk of death from respiratory causes.