Low levels of serum albumin and blood basophils as 10-year mortality predictors in a nationwide Korean COPD cohort
Hye Jung Park, Yeseul Song, Youlim Kim, June Hong Ahn, Chang Youl Lee, Deog Kyeom Kim, Ji-Yong Moon, Won-Yeon Lee, Kwang Ha Yoo, Min Kwang Byun · 2025
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Hye Jung Park and co-authors mine blood tests for death risk clues in lung disease in a 2025 Korean cohort study. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is the world's third biggest killer, and cheap warning signs would help clinics triage care. The cohort followed patients from fifty-four university hospitals for ten years.
Of close to nineteen hundred patients, about one in six died during follow-up. Six blood measures stood out in adjusted models, among them hemoglobin, a kidney marker, and blood urea nitrogen. Two cheap ones led the pack: low albumin, a nutrition and inflammation gauge, and low basophils, a rare white cell type. Each split survival curves cleanly at set cutoffs, and their product did the same. The authors offer the pair as bedside arithmetic for spotting fragile patients early.
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| CREATOR | Hye Jung Park, Yeseul Song, Youlim Kim, June Hong Ahn, Chang Youl Lee, Deog Kyeom Kim, Ji-Yong Moon, Won-Yeon Lee, Kwang Ha Yoo, Min Kwang Byun |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 31 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |