Radiological Imaging in Pulmonary Embolism

Abstract

This study aimed to compare the demographic data, co-morbidity profiles and clinical presentation of patients with peripheral or central pulmonary edema. The total number of patients of a hundred was arrived at with fifty patients in each of the two groups. The peripheral and central edema patient groups in the study had median ages of 40 and 45, respectively. Self-efficiency and cholesterol were the two variables that were investigated in the present study, apart from diabetes, myocardial infarction, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and body mass index (BMI). In the present study, the BMI has been compared in the two groups using the Mann-Whitney U test in which the p value of 0.021 indicates that the two groups are significantly different. Analyzing the results by multiple regression, it was found that the presence of pulmonary edema can be explained by age (p = 0.011) and the presence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (p = 0.044). In the analysis of variance, these relationships regarding age and comorbidities such as diabetes (p=0.034), myocardial infarction (p=0.025), COPD (p=0.031), and solid tumors (p=0.046) were statistically significant (p=0.040). The outcomes reveal that several patient-specific factors must contribute considerably to the development of both central and peripheral pulmonary edema, such as age, obesity, and several diseases and health conditions.

Keywords: Pulmonary edema, Comorbidities, Body mass index (BMI), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), multiple regression analysis