Conclusions
Taken together, our results identified that hypertension and chronic cor
pulmonale (CCP) were independently associated with LHS in AECOPD
patients. These results indicated that AECOPD patients combined with
hypertension and/or CCP were more severe. Then, it was necessary to
provide earlier and more effective interventions to AECOPD patients
combined with hypertension and CCP. However, these findings should be
validated in primary health care and other ethnic groups in the future.