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Stratification of mortality results according to GOLD grades could not be performed, owing to too many missing data for functional status at admission.
One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to compare the EQ-5D, EQ-VAS, PROMIS domains, and other measures among patients with different GOLD grades.
This point is in accordance with the results of previous studies showing that GOLD grades 3 and 4 are likely represented in the probable IPA group rather than in the Aspergillus spp. colonized group [ 12, 13].
ANOVA F-statistics comparing mean scores across GOLD grades were used to assess the relative discriminative ability of the EQ summary scores (index score, VAS) and the PROMIS-43 subscales.
To be eligible for inclusion, patients had to be diagnosed with COPD GOLD grades I, II, or III [ 25] and be physically and mentally able to complete the questionnaires.
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In studies that presented only the GOLD grade distribution the mean GOLD grade was calculated and converted into a mean FEV1%-predicted.
The effect of these non-COPD diseases on PCS was of approximately the same magnitude as the effect of having COPD GOLD grade 2, but considerably less than the effect of GOLD grade 3 and 4 (fig. 2).
Of the 11 studies that reported on pain prevalence, seven also reported the mean FEV1% predicted and one study reported the GOLD grade distribution, 23 which was converted to a weighted mean GOLD grade (figure 5).
Twenty patients had a score >16, indicating that 22.2% of the patients studied were possible cases of depression (three patients with GOLD grade I, 15 with GOLD grade II, and two patients with GOLD grade III) [ 34].
Subjects with COPD and FEV1 ≥80% predicted were classified as GOLD grade 1; those with COPD and FEV1 <80% but FEV1 ≥50% predicted were classified as GOLD grade 2; those with COPD and FEV1 <50% but FEV1 ≥30% predicted were classified as GOLD grade 3 and those with COPD and FEV1 <30% predicted were classified as GOLD grade 4 [ 18].
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