Hiroaki Fujii, Yu Hara, Yusuke Saigusa, Yoichi Tagami, Kota Murohashi, Ryo Nagasawa, Ayako Aoki, Ami Izawa, Kenichi Seki, Keisuke Watanabe, Nobuyuki Horita, Nobuaki Kobayashi, Takeshi Kaneko
BACKGROUND: The ILD-GAP scoring system has been widely used to predict the prognosis of patients with interstitial lung disease (ILD). The ability of the ILD-GAP scoring system combined with the Charlson Comorbidity Index score (CCIS) (ILD-GAPC) to predict ILD prognosis was investigated. METHODS: In ILD patients, including idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), idiopathic nonspecific interstitial pneumonia (iNSIP), collagen vascular disease-related interstitial pneumonia (CVD-IP), chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis (CHP), and unclassifiable ILD (UC-ILD), treated between April 2013 and April 2017, the relationships between baseline clinical parameters, including age, sex, CCIS, ILD diagnosis, pulmonary function test results, and disease outcomes, were retrospectively assessed, and the ability to predict prognosis was compared between the ILD-GAP and ILD-GAPC models, respectively...
2023: Canadian Respiratory Journal: Journal of the Canadian Thoracic Society