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ArticleInternational journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease2020

Is the Disease Burden from COPD in Norway Falling off? A Study of Time Trends in Three Different Data Sources.

Hasse Melbye, Jon Helgeland, Øystein Karlstad, Inger Ariansen, Arnulf Langhammer, Torbjørn Wisløff, Per Nafstad, Wenche Nystad

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Article in International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Hasse MelbyeGeneral Practice Research Unit, Department of Community Medicine, UIT the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.ORCID 0000-0002-9773-3141
Jon HelgelandNorwegian Institute of Public Health, Division of Health Services, Oslo, Norway.ORCID 0000-0002-9348-7844
Øystein KarlstadNorwegian Institute of Public Health, Department of Non-Communicable Diseases, Oslo, Norway.ORCID 0000-0003-1204-787X
Inger AriansenNorwegian Institute of Public Health, Department of Non-Communicable Diseases, Oslo, Norway.ORCID 0000-0001-8529-4826
Arnulf LanghammerDepartment of Public Health and Nursing, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.ORCID 0000-0001-5296-6673
Torbjørn WisløffGeneral Practice Research Unit, Department of Community Medicine, UIT the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.ORCID 0000-0002-7539-082X
Per NafstadNorwegian Institute of Public Health, Department of Non-Communicable Diseases, Oslo, Norway.ORCID 0000-0002-2147-7145
Wenche NystadNorwegian Institute of Public Health, Department of Non-Communicable Diseases, Oslo, Norway.
Norwegian Institute of Public Health · NOUiT The Arctic University of Norway · NONorwegian University of Science and Technology · NO

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Less smoking should lead to fewer COPD cases. We aimed at estimating time trends in the prevalence and burden of COPD in Norway from 2001 to 2017. Methods: We used pre-bronchodilator spirometry and other health data from persons aged 40-84 years in three surveys of the Tromsø Study, 2001-2002, 2007-2008 and 2015-2016. We applied spirometry lower limits of normal (LLN) according to Global Lung Initiative 2012. Age-standardized prevalence was determined. We defined COPD as FEV Results: In the Tromsø Study, the age-standardized prevalence of daily smoking dropped from 29.9% to 14.1% among women and from 31.4% to 12.8% among men ( Conclusion: COPD morbidity decreased between 2001 and 2017, which might partly be due to less smoking. The drop in smoking prevalence gives promise of a further substantial decrease in the coming decades.

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Smoking CessationAdultAgedAged, 80 and overAge DistributionDatabases, FactualFemaleForced Expiratory VolumeHealth StatusHumansLungMaleMiddle AgedNorwayPrevalencePulmonary Disease, Chronic ObstructiveCOPDepidemiologygeneral populationsmoking

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PMID32103931
PMCPMC7024866
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