[Pulmonary rehabilitation effects in patients with COPD according to GOLD 2020 classification in Cali, Colombia]

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease has a guide in charge of prevention and treatment, called the Global Initiative for Chronic Lung Disease, which is annually updated and catalogs pulmonary rehabilitation, within the treatment options.

To describe the effects on clinical variables, functional capacity, anxiety/depression and health-related quality of life in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, after a pulmonary rehabilitation program, according to the GOLD 2020 classification in a Cali clinic.

Descriptive, longitudinal study where 79 patients divided into 3 groups were included (B, C and D).

The mean age was 70 years, 69% men. The number of hospitalized days was greater for groups C and D with an average of 8 and 13 days, respectively (p≤0.000). The functional capacity showed a greater distance in group C (421m) and the shortest distance for group D (328m), p≤0.006. In anxiety and depression, group D managed to obtain improvements as well as in the quality of life questionnaire.

Group C presented greater functional capacity and better quality of life, group B had better results in clinical variables, and group D had worse clinical condition, functional capacity and quality of life. At the end of pulmonary rehabilitation, group D presented greater changes in functional capacity and quality of life.