Prospective Observational Study on the Assessment of Cardiovascular Risk in Patients with Exacerbation of COPD

The objectives of the study were to compare the following parameters in COPD patients' volunteers age and sex-matched control subjects: lipid parameters and atherogenic indices, viz., atherogenic index of plasma (AIP); cardiovascular risk ratio (CRR); and atherogenic coefficient (AC). To estimate ten-year cardiovascular risk in COPD patients using various cardiovascular risk score calculators, viz., Framingham risk score (FRS-CVD), Joint British Society-3 (JBS3) score, QRISK 2, Reynolds risk score (RRS). The 10-year scores of the COPD subjects were calculated using CV risk score calculators. The FRS-CVD calculator could identify the maximum number of subjects with high CVD risk (risk score 10-20%), followed by the JBS-3 and QRISK2 calculators. The FRS-CVD calculator showed that of the subjects to be in the high-risk category. JBS3 and QRISK2 were second to FRS-CVD performed intermediately by categorizing 35% and 30% of the COPD subjects to be in the high-risk vents.