Trends in COPD mortality and hospitalizations in countries and regions of Asia-Pacific

  1. Wan C. TAN1,
  2. Paul SEALE2,
  3. Mary IP3,
  4. Young-Soo SHIM6,
  5. Chi-Huei CHIANG7,
  6. Tze-Pin NG8,
  7. John ABISHEGANADAN9,
  8. Suchai CHAROENRATANAKUL10,
  9. Teresita DeGUIA11,
  10. Aziah MAHAYIDDIN12,
  11. Hardiato MANGUNNEGORO13,
  12. Yong-Jian XU4,
  13. Nan-Shan ZHONG5

Article first published online: 10 NOV 2008

DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2008.01415.x

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Respirology

Respirology

Volume 14, Issue 1, pages 90–97, January 2009

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TAN, W. C., SEALE, P., IP, M., SHIM, Y.-S., CHIANG, C.-H., NG, T.-P., ABISHEGANADAN, J., CHAROENRATANAKUL, S., DeGUIA, T., MAHAYIDDIN, A., MANGUNNEGORO, H., XU, Y.-J. and ZHONG, N.-S. (2009), Trends in COPD mortality and hospitalizations in countries and regions of Asia-Pacific. Respirology, 14: 90–97. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2008.01415.x

Author Information

  1. 1

    iCapture Centre, UBC, St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada,

  2. 2

    Department of Pharmacology, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia,

  3. 3

    Department of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR,

  4. 4

    Tongji Medical College, Wuhan, Hubei Province,

  5. 5

    Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China,

  6. 6

    Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea,

  7. 7

    National Yang-Ming University, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan,

  8. 8

    Department of Psychological Medicine, National University of Singapore,

  9. 9

    Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore,

  10. 10

    Department of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand,

  11. 11

    Pulmonary Department, Philippine Heart Center, Quezon City, the Philippines,

  12. 12

    Department of Medicine, Kuala Lumpur Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and

  13. 13

    Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia

*Wan C. Tan, UBC James Hogg iCAPTURE Centre, St Paul's Hospital, 1081 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6Z 1Y6. Email: wtan@mrl.ubc.ca

  1. Conflicts of interest: Wan C. Tan has received research grants from GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca and Boehringer/Pfizer for the epidemiological study of COPD in Canada. P Seale of the Clinical Trials Unit of the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, Sydney has conducted clinical trials which are funded by the following pharmaceutical companies: GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, Nycomed, Pfizer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Novartis and Almirall. The other authors have no conflict of interest to declare. Boehringer Ingelhiem and Pfizer provided the funds for professional help in statistical analysis and in editing of the manuscript, but were not involved in the data collection, the interpretation of the data or writing of the manuscript.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 17 DEC 2008
  2. Article first published online: 10 NOV 2008
  3. Received 8 January 2008; invited to revise 4 February 2008; revised 1 July 2008; accepted 8 July 2008 (Associate Editor: David Hui).

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