Anxiety and depression in COPD

Francesco G. Salerno; Mauro Carone

doi:10.4081/mrm.2011.441

Anxiety and depression in COPD

Authors

Francesco G. Salerno Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, IRCCS, Divisione di Pneumologia, Istituto Scientifico di Cassano delle Murge, Cassano delle Murge (BA)
Mauro Carone Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, IRCCS, Divisione di Pneumologia, Istituto Scientifico di Cassano delle Murge, Cassano delle Murge (BA)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4081/mrm.2011.441

Keywords:

COPD, Anxiety, Depression

Abstract

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a lung disease associated with chronic systemic in- flammatory syndrome. COPD is often associat- ed with comorbidities that need to be evaluated be- cause they affect the severity of the disease. [...]