WANG Xinyu 1 , LI Jin 2 , GAO Min 1,2 , RAN Xin 1 , TONG Yiman 1 , CHEN Wei 1,2
  • 1. The Affiliated Xuzhou Rehabilitation Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, 221010, Jiangsu, P. R. China;
  • 2. Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Xuzhou Central Hospital, Xuzhou Clinical College of Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, 221009, Jiangsu, P. R. China;
CHEN Wei, Email: chenwei2339@163.com
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Objective To observe the effect of comorbidity for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) on exercise tolerance and cardiopulmonary function. Methods NSCLC patients who underwent cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) before surgery were retrospectively included. According to the Charlson comorbidity index (CCI) score, patients were divided into two groups: a CCI≥3 group and a CCI<3 group. The patients were matched with a ratio of 1 : 1 by propensity score matching according to the age, body mass index, sex, smoking history, exercise habits, pathological stage and type of surgery. After matching, CPET indexes were compared between the two groups to explore the differences in exercise tolerance and cardiopulmonary function. Results A total of 276 patients were included before matching. After matching, 56 patients were enrolled with 28 patients in each group, including 38 (67.9%) males and 18 (32.1%) females with an average age of (70.7±6.8) years. Compared with the CCI<3 group, work rate at peak (WR peak), WR peak/predicted value (WR peak%), kilogram oxygen uptake at anaerobic threshold (VO2/kg AT), VO2/kg peak, VO2/kg peak%, peak carbon dioxide output, the minute ventilation to carbon dioxide production slope, O2 pulse peak and O2 pulse peak% of CCI≥3 group were statistically different (P<0.05). Among them, the rate of postoperative pulmonary complication in the CCI≥3 group was higher than that in the CCI<3 group (60.7% vs. 32.1%, P=0.032). Conclusion In the NSCLC patients, exercise tolerance and cardiopulmonary function decreased in patients with CCI≥3 compared with those with CCI<3. CPET can provide an objective basis for risk assessment in patients with comorbidity scored by CCI for pulmonary resection.

Citation: WANG Xinyu, LI Jin, GAO Min, RAN Xin, TONG Yiman, CHEN Wei. Effect of comorbidity for patients with non-small cell lung cancer on exercise tolerance and cardiopulmonary function: A propensity score matching study. Chinese Journal of Clinical Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2025, 32(8): 1115-1120. doi: 10.7507/1007-4848.202306002 Copy

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