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Incidence and long-term outcome of severe asthma–COPD overlap compared to asthma and COPD alone: a 35-year prospective study of 57,053 middle-aged adults

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Incidence and long-term outcome of severe asthma–COPD overlap compared to asthma and COPD alone: a 35-year prospective study of 57,053 middle-aged adults
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International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, February 2017
DOI 10.2147/copd.s123167
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Camilla Boslev Baarnes, Zorana Jovanovic Andersen, Anne Tjønneland, Charlotte Suppli Ulrik

Abstract

Incidence and prognosis for severe asthma-COPD overlap is poorly characterized. We investigated incidence and long-term outcome for patients with asthma-COPD overlap compared to asthma and COPD alone. A total of 57,053 adults (aged 50-64 years) enrolled in the Danish Diet, Cancer, and Health cohort (1993-1997) were followed in the National Patients Registry for admissions for asthma (DJ45-46) and COPD (DJ40-44) and vital status. Asthma-COPD overlap was defined as at least one hospital admission for asthma and one for COPD (different time points), and incident asthma-COPD overlap as at least one of the diagnoses occurring after enrollment into the Diet, Cancer, and Health cohort. A total of 1,845 (3.2%) and 4,037 (7.1%) participants had admissions for asthma and COPD, respectively, with 662 (1.2%) participants with asthma-COPD overlap. Incidence rate of asthma-COPD overlap per 1,000 person-years was higher in women (0.73) than in men (0.54) (P<0.02). Mortality rate was higher in asthma-COPD overlap (25.9 per 1,000 person-years) compared with COPD (23.1, P<0.05) and asthma (7.9, P<0.001) alone. Compared to COPD alone, mortality was higher in women with asthma-COPD overlap (19.6 and 25.5, respectively; P<0.01), and the excess mortality rate for asthma-COPD overlap patients was most prominent for younger age groups (12.9 compared to 7.2 and 4.6 for COPD and asthma alone, respectively; P<0.01). This large population-based study revealed a higher incidence of severe asthma-COPD overlap in women compared to men, and furthermore that all-cause mortality is higher in women and younger subjects with asthma-COPD overlap compared with those with asthma or COPD alone.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 8 18%
Student > Master 6 13%
Professor 5 11%
Student > Bachelor 5 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 7%
Other 9 20%
Unknown 9 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 20 44%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 4%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 4%
Psychology 2 4%
Mathematics 1 2%
Other 4 9%
Unknown 14 31%
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