Article
[Epidemiology and prevention of COPD].
Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946) - 1 Mar 2005
Studnicka Michael
Abstract excerpt
The prevalence of COPD when using spirometry data lies between 4% and 10%. However, health statistics do not fully account for COPD patients either, given the underdiagnosis of this disease reported between 30% and 50%. In the late stage, COPD is associated with a great impact on quality of life and repeated costly hospital stays. Given that COPD in its early stage would be easily preventable by means of smoking...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Child
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Prevalence
- Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
- Risk Factors
- Smoking
- Smoking Cessation
- Spirometry