Specific features of carotid artery hemodynamics with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with comorbidities

Tanchenko Olga A., Naryshkina Svetlana V.

The article in hand reviews the study of patterns of carotid artery hemodynamics in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with comorbidities and abdominal obesity. It is interesting to note that in the case of COPD with comorbidities there is a more pronounced increase in the resistance index at the level of the internal and external carotid arteries. It has been established that the increase in the carotid intimal medial thickness of the common carotid arteries in patients with COPD with comorbidities and abdominal obesity is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disasters and the progression of cardiovascular pathology. Early diagnostics and correction of changes in hemodynamics in the carotid arteries and metabolic disorders will allow timely prevention of adverse consequences of vascular complications of this comorbid pathology.

Keywords:chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, atherosclerotic process, carotid arteries, abdominal obesity