Nutritional anemia is associated with increased risk of severe COPD exacerbations: a prospective cohort study
Valerie Dehondt, Nicolas Kint, Lowie EGW Vanfleteren, Lies Lahousse · 2026
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Valerie Dehondt and co-authors report a 2026 cohort study of anemia in people hospitalized for severe flare-ups of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a long-term lung illness often shortened to COPD. Using a Belgian national database, they sorted anemia into subtypes and asked how each subtype tracks with death after discharge and with return to hospital. Earlier work rarely split anemia this way.
Among 32,152 patients, about one in five had anemia, and the nutritional form, tied to missing nutrients such as iron, was the most common. Every subtype came with a higher risk of death after discharge, with blood-disorder anemia highest and nutritional anemia next. Only nutritional anemia also raised the chance of readmission. Treatments such as iron and vitamin B12 were linked to lower death risk in some subtypes, which the authors say argues for subtype-aware care.
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| CREATOR | Valerie Dehondt, Nicolas Kint, Lowie EGW Vanfleteren, Lies Lahousse |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 37562 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |