Wednesday Feb 23, 2022
COPD and comorbidities: How can epidemiology help us?
Epidemiology and comorbidities in COPD will be thoroughly discussed on this week's episode of the Medical Insider COPD podcast, as Dr Richard Russell is joined by Professor Jennifer Quint. They will discuss the differences between COPD populations in randomised controlled trials and real-world observational studies,1,2 as well as the importance of treating cardiovascular comorbidities in people with COPD.3 Dr Russell will then talk through the most important takeaways from a recent publication on exacerbations and muscle loss in smokers with COPD.4 Finally, he will discuss biomass fuels and their effect on people with respiratory disorders, which has been a hot topic on social media this week.
1 Quint JK, et al. Adv Ther 2021; https://doi.org/10.1007/s12325-021-01646-5;
2 Rabe KF, et al. N Engl J Med 2020;383:35–48;
3 Axson EL, et al. Thorax 2021; ISSN:0040-6376;
4 Mason SE, et al. Thorax 2021; doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2020-215999. Online ahead of print.
Disclosures
Professor Jennifer Quint
Professor Quint has received grants from Asthma UK, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, British Lung Foundation, Chiesi, The Health Foundation, GlaxoSmithKline, Insmed, IQVIA and MRC, and personal fees for advisory board participation or speaking fees from AstraZeneca, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim and GlaxoSmithKline.
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Professor Jennifer Quint Professor Jennifer Quint (MSc PhD FHEA FRCP) is a Professor of Respiratory Epidemiology at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, and an Honorary Respiratory Consultant. She leads a clinical epidemiology research group whose work centres largely on understanding the relationship between cardiovascular and respiratory disease as well as maximising the quality, linkage and usage of routinely collected data for clinical and research purposes. She partners with the Royal College of Physicians, is Analysis Lead for the National Asthma and COPD Audit Programme and is the Deputy Director of the BREATHE HDR UK hub. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for Thorax and is the Information Governance Trustee for the British Thoracic Society. |
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The Medical Insider COPD podcast series discusses hot topics in the world of COPD with those who know it best, aiming to spread information, debunk myths and improve the lives of patients. The Editorial Board of the Medical Insider COPD podcast is comprised of Professor James Chalmers, the British Lung Foundation Chair of Respiratory Research at the University of Dundee (UK), Professor Michael Dreher, the Head of the Department of Pneumology and Intensive Care Medicine at the University Hospital Aachen (Germany), and the host and moderator, Dr Richard Russell, a Consultant Chest Physician at Lymington New Forest Hospital (UK), a Senior Clinical Researcher at the University of Oxford (UK) and the founding editor of the International Journal of COPD. These series of podcasts have not been peer-reviewed, but have been vetted by the journal’s Editor-in-Chief.
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