Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and arterial hypertension: methaphysics and dialectic

Abstract

The paper provides a review of prevalence and outcomes of cardiovascular comorbidities in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). From a clinical and patient-centered perspective, a COPD phenotype should be able to classify patients into distinct subgroups that provide prognostic information and allow to better determine appropriate therapy that alters clinically meaningful outcomes. It is hypothesized that both COPD and artherial hypertension (AH) have common pathway linking these comorbidities and explaining why they significantly complicate the management and influence the prognosis of patients with COPD and AH. Further studies will be required to explore this hypothesis and understand the relationship between COPD and AH.

Keywords

• chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
• arterial hypertension
• comorbidity