Lung function, forced expiratory volume in 1 s decline and COPD hospitalisations over 44 years of follow-up

• Published in: The European respiratory journal Vol. 47; no. 3; pp. 742 - 750
• Main Authors: Zaigham, Suneela, Wollmer, Per, Engström, Gunnar
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England 01.03.2016
• Subjects: Aged; Clinical Medicine; Follow-Up Studies; Forced Expiratory Volume; Hospitalization - statistics & numerical data; Humans; Kaplan-Meier Estimate; Klinisk medicin; Linear Models; Lungmedicin och allergi; Male; Medical and Health Sciences; Medicin och hälsovetenskap; Middle Aged; Proportional Hazards Models; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - mortality; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - physiopathology; Respiratory Medicine and Allergy; Risk Factors; Smoking; Spirometry - methods; Sweden; Tidal Volume

The use of baseline lung function in the prediction of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) hospitalisations, all-cause mortality and lung function decline was assessed in the population-based “Men Born in 1914” cohort. Spirometry was assessed at age 55 years in 689 subjects, of whom 392 had...