Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease mortality and prevalence: the associations with smoking and poverty: a BOLD analysis--authors' reply

Affiliations

¹ National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, UK.
² Department of Medical Sciences: Respiratory Medicine & Allergology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
³ Division of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
⁴ Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria.
⁵ James Hogg Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
⁶ Division of Pulmonology, University of Cape Town Lung Institute, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁷ Department of Chest Diseases, Cukurova University School of Medicine, Adana, Turkey.
⁸ Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, Portland, Oregon, USA.
⁹ Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland.
¹⁰ Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, Australia.
¹¹ Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
¹² Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, USA.

Comment

Peter Burney et al. Thorax. 2014 Sep.

. 2014 Sep;69(9):869-70.

doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2014-205474. Epub 2014 May 1.

¹ National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, UK.
² Department of Medical Sciences: Respiratory Medicine & Allergology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
³ Division of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
⁴ Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria.
⁵ James Hogg Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
⁶ Division of Pulmonology, University of Cape Town Lung Institute, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁷ Department of Chest Diseases, Cukurova University School of Medicine, Adana, Turkey.
⁸ Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, Portland, Oregon, USA.
⁹ Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland.
¹⁰ Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, Australia.
¹¹ Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
¹² Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: COPD Epidemiology.

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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease mortality and prevalence: the associations with smoking and poverty--a BOLD analysis.
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