title: Systemic manifestations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
abstract: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a complex multisystem disease with comorbidities and systemic manifestations that affect respiratory symptoms, exacerbation frequency and mortality. This article gives an overview of these systemic manifestations and their importance, and offers strategies for managing them.
authors.affiliation: Specialty Trainee, UCL Hospitals, London.
authors.forename: Eleanor
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Warwick
authors.affiliation: Specialty Trainee in the Department of Thoracic Medicine, UCL Hospitals, London.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Scourfield
authors.affiliation: Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology in the Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT.
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Quint
mesh_terms: D000740:Anemia / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D001526:Behavioral Symptoms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D015897:Comorbidity; D019468:Disease Management; D018450:Disease Progression; D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation / Q000503:physiopathology; D009140:Musculoskeletal Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D012891:Sleep Apnea Syndromes / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology