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Incidence of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, and the Relationship between Age and Smoking in a Japanese Population

BACKGROUND: Accurately evaluating a risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) requires a large-scale longitudinal study using a standard criterion for diagnosing COPD. There have been only a few such follow-up studies in Europe and no reports in Asia. We estimated the incidence rate and i...

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Autores principales: Kojima, Shigeko, Sakakibara, Hiroki, Motani, Shinichi, Hirose, Kunihiko, Mizuno, Fumio, Ochiai, Masahiro, Hashimoto, Shuji
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Japan Epidemiological Association 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7058460/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17420613
http://dx.doi.org/10.2188/jea.17.54