TY - JOUR T1 - Non-CF bronchiectasis: Correlation between body mass composition, lung function, inflammatory syndrome, gender and quality of life JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J VL - 40 IS - Suppl 56 SP - P3494 AU - Adina Turcanu AU - Traian Mihaescu Y1 - 2012/09/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/40/Suppl_56/P3494.abstract N2 - Background: The impact of bronchiectasis on health care's costs and quality of life is important due to prolonged and repeated periods of hospitalization.Aim: Asses the situation of hospitalized persons diagnosed with non-CF bronchiectasis by studying the relationship between body mass composition,pulmonary function and gender;to study how these parameters correlate with the inflammatory profile associated with acute recurrent respiratory infections.Methods: 30 consecutive patients(15 male,15 women) enrolled in 2011,evaluated through HRCT,bioimpedance,spirometry,inflammatory profile and Saint George Questionnaire.Results: We observed that 70% of the patients(12 male and 9 women) had high percent of fat,the percentage of water was low at 50% of the patients(9 male;6 women);also,the lean percentage was low at 28 patients(equal for both sex).Regarding the pulmonary function and the inflammatory syndrome we observed that 90%(27 patients) had abnormal values for CRP and ESR, and all patients had obstructive dysfunction syndrome(FEV1 between 34-85 % from predicted values).80% of the answers from Saint George Questionnaire indicated that the quality of life was medium to poor.We correlate this to low percent of lean and water,the presence of inflammatory syndrome and obstructive respiratory syndrome.Conclusions: Body mass composition in patients with non-CF bronchiectasis is modified,more in male than in women,probably due to chronic lung disease and recurrent infections associated with the inflammatory syndrome.Obstructive lung syndrome is present at almost all the patients and with the rest of parameters can be correlated with the decrease of the quality of life. ER -