IMPACT OF CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE ON THE COURSE OF COMORBID PATHOLOGY WITH CORONARY HEART DISEASE AND ON MORE SEVERE COURSE OF COVID-19

Abstract

The article presents results of scientific researches about influence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) on the course of comorbid pathology with coronary heart disease (CHD). CHD is called in Ukraine ischemic heart disease (IHD). According to the conducted retrospective analysis of scientific publications about simultaneous course of these diseases was established that they occupy one of the leading places among reasons of disability patients and death rate in Ukraine and all over the world. Also article shows significant difficulties in curation of such patients. Theoretically most experts agree that during choosing the tactics of treatment of COPD it is impossible to escape a summury risk that is caused by comorbidity of pathologies, especially for the senile age patients, that is the most vulnerable stratum of population for COVID-19. Patients with combination of СHD and COPD have an unfavorable course of these diseases and high risk of death rate. It needs tо exposure this pathology in time and implementation of modern quality methods of diagnostics and treatment. It is supposed to carry out research to set diagnostic criteria that would serve as the primary or secondary markers of the combined development of COPD and CHD, and prove that COPD and CHD is in clinical and pathogenetical dependence. Therefore, a study of the simultaneous course the of COPD and СHD is one of the actual problem of modern medicine and due to our opinion it should be provided further scientific researches.