A recent study has found the severity of a patient’s bronchiectasis is linked to a higher risk of vascular disease. A study of the data from 400 bronchiectasis patients at a clinic in Edinburgh over a 16-month period found that 11 percent of the study group had pre-existing vascular disease and 11 percent developed vascular disease after their bronchiectasis diagnosis after an average of 9.4 years.

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The study also found the patients were more likely to have vascular disease if they were male, had high blood pressure, had been using statins on a long-term basis and had a moderate or worse severity of bronchiectasis. Find out more about this study here. 

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