The role of body mass index in acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Low body mass index (BMI) is a strong prognostic marker in stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); however, little is known about its role in acute exacerbations of COPD. OBJECTIVES: To determine the prevalence and determinants of low BMI in emergency department (ED) patients with acute exacerbations of COPD, and to examine whether low BMI was associated with more severe acute exacerbations, more intensive ED treatments and worse post-ED outcomes. METHODS: A secondary analysis was performed using data from a prospective multicentre cohort study involving 29 ED in the USA and Canada. Using a standard protocol, ED patients with acute exacerbations of COPD were interviewed and their charts reviewed. BMI was calculated using self-reported weight and height. Main outcome measures included hospital admission, post-ED relapse and ongoing exacerbation. RESULTS: 395 patients were enrolled. Their median age was 69 years (interquartile range 62-76); 52% were women. Thirteen per cent (95% CI 10% to 16%) were underweight, 37% normal weight, 27% overweight and 23% were obese. Current smoking was independently associated with underweight (OR 5.4, 95% CI 1.1 to 25.2). In the propensity-matched cohort, there were no significant differences in severity of exacerbation, treatments received in the ED, or short-term clinical outcomes, according to BMI. CONCLUSIONS: Low BMI is not uncommon in patients with acute exacerbations of COPD, and current smoking is associated with low BMI in these patients. Unlike its role in stable COPD, BMI appears to have little impact on exacerbation severity, treatments received in the ED, and short-term clinical outcomes in acute exacerbations of COPD.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".