STUDY OBJECTIVE: The present study evaluated the relationship between health status (HS) and peripheral muscle histochemical characteristics in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and identified selected independent respiratory and extrapulmonary variables that predicted the HS of these patients. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. SETTING: Outpatient respiratory clinic of a university hospital. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We studied 29 patients (63+/-10 yrs) with a forced expiratory volume in 1s (FEV1) of 39+/-12%. All patients underwent vastus lateralis muscle biopsies for histochemical analysis. They also had spirometry, arterial blood gas analysis, body mass index (BMI), dyspnea determined with the MMRC scale and responded to the St. George's Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ) for HS assessment. RESULTS: SGRQ total score correlated with fiber type distribution. A stepwise multiple regression identified three independent predictors of SGRQ total score: type I fiber proportion, BMI, and FEV1; r = 0.78 and r2 = 0.61. CONCLUSIONS: These results indicate that impaired HS in COPD is related to the peripheral muscle changes characterized by less type I fibers proportion. The findings argue in favor of an important contribution of the systemic consequences on the HS in COPD independently from the airflow limitation severity, and help to explain the observation of the poor correlation between the degree of airflow limitation and SGRQ total score.
STUDY OBJECTIVE: The present study evaluated the relationship between health status (HS) and peripheral muscle histochemical characteristics in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and identified selected independent respiratory and extrapulmonary variables that predicted the HS of these patients. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. SETTING:Outpatient respiratory clinic of a university hospital. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We studied 29 patients (63+/-10 yrs) with a forced expiratory volume in 1s (FEV1) of 39+/-12%. All patients underwent vastus lateralis muscle biopsies for histochemical analysis. They also had spirometry, arterial blood gas analysis, body mass index (BMI), dyspnea determined with the MMRC scale and responded to the St. George's Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ) for HS assessment. RESULTS: SGRQ total score correlated with fiber type distribution. A stepwise multiple regression identified three independent predictors of SGRQ total score: type I fiber proportion, BMI, and FEV1; r = 0.78 and r2 = 0.61. CONCLUSIONS: These results indicate that impaired HS in COPD is related to the peripheral muscle changes characterized by less type I fibers proportion. The findings argue in favor of an important contribution of the systemic consequences on the HS in COPD independently from the airflow limitation severity, and help to explain the observation of the poor correlation between the degree of airflow limitation and SGRQ total score.
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