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- Backman, Helena, et al.
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All-cause and cause-specific mortality by spirometric pattern and sex - a population-based cohort study
- 2024
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Ingår i: THERAPEUTIC ADVANCES IN RESPIRATORY DISEASE. - : Sage Publications. - 1753-4658 .- 1753-4666. ; 18
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Chronic airway obstruction (CAO) and restrictive spirometry pattern (RSP) are associated with mortality, but sex-specific patterns of all-cause and specific causes of death have hardly been evaluated. Objectives: To study the possible sex-dependent differences of all-cause mortality and patterns of cause-specific mortality among men and women with CAO and RSP, respectively, to that of normal lung function (NLF). Design: Population-based prospective cohort study. Methods: Individuals with CAO [FEV1/vital capacity (VC) < 0.70], RSP [FEV1/VC >= 0.70 and forced vital capacity (FVC) < 80% predicted] and NLF (FEV1/VC >= 0.70 and FVC >= 80% predicted) were identified within the Obstructive Lung Disease in Northern Sweden (OLIN) studies in 2002-2004. Mortality data were collected through April 2016, totally covering 19,000 patient-years. Cox regression and Fine-Gray regression accounting for competing risks were utilized to estimate hazard ratios (HRs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) adjusted for age, body mass index, sex, smoking habits and pack-years. Results: The adjusted hazard for all-cause mortality was higher in CAO and RSP than in NLF (HR, 95% CI; 1.69, 1.31-2.02 and 1.24, 1.06-1.71), and the higher hazards were driven by males. CAO had a higher hazard of respiratory and cardiovascular death than NLF (2.68, 1.05-6.82 and 1.40, 1.04-1.90). The hazard of respiratory death was significant in women (3.41, 1.05-11.07) while the hazard of cardiovascular death was significant in men (1.49, 1.01-2.22). In RSP, the higher hazard for respiratory death remained after adjustment (2.68, 1.05-6.82) but not for cardiovascular death (1.11, 0.74-1.66), with a similar pattern in both sexes. Conclusion: The higher hazard for all-cause mortality in CAO and RSP than in NLF was male driven. CAO was associated with respiratory death in women and cardiovascular death in men, while RSP is associated with respiratory death, similarly in both sexes.
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- Backman, Helena, et al.
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Lung function trajectories and associated mortality among adults with and without airway obstruction
- 2023
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Ingår i: American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. - : American Thoracic Society. - 1073-449X .- 1535-4970. ; 208:10, s. 1063-1074
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Rationale: Spirometry is essential for diagnosis and assessment of prognosis in COPD.Objectives: To identify FEV1 trajectories and their determinants, based on annual spirometry measurements among individuals with and without airway obstruction. Furthermore, to assess mortality in relation to trajectories.Methods: In 2002-04, individuals with airway obstruction (AO) (FEV1/VC<0.70, n=993) and age- and sex-matched non-obstructive (NO) referents were recruited from population-based cohorts. Annual spirometries until 2014 were utilized in joint-survival Latent Class Mixed Models to identify lung function trajectories. Mortality data were collected during 15 years of follow-up.Results: Three trajectories were identified among the AO-cases and two among the NO referents. Trajectory membership was driven by baseline FEV1%predicted (%pred) in both groups and additionaly, pack-years in AO and current smoking in NO. Longitudinal FEV1%pred level depended on baseline FEV1%pred, pack-years and obesity. The trajectories were distributed: 79.6% T1AO FEV1-high with normal decline, 12.8% T2AO FEV1-high with rapid decline, and 7.7% T3AO FEV1-low with normal decline (mean 27, 72 and 26 mL/year) among AO-individuals, and 96.7% T1NO FEV1-high with normal decline and 3.3% T2NO FEV1-high with rapid decline (mean 34 and 173 mL/year) among referents. Hazard for death was increased for T2AO (HR1.56) and T3AO (HR3.45) vs. T1AO, and for T2NO (HR2.99) vs. T1NO.Conclusions: Three different FEV1 trajectories were identified among those with airway obstruction and two among the referents, with different outcomes in terms of FEV1-decline and mortality. The FEV1 trajectories among airway obstructive and the relationship between low FVC and trajectory outcome are of particular clinical interest.
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- Lindberg, Anne, et al.
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Large underreporting of COPD as cause of death-results from a population-based cohort study
- 2021
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Ingår i: Respiratory Medicine. - : Elsevier BV. - 0954-6111 .- 1532-3064. ; 186
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: In 2019, WHO estimated COPD to be the third leading cause of death in the world. However, COPD is probably underestimated as cause of death due to the well-known under-diagnosis. Aim: To evaluate the proportion of and factors associated with COPD recorded as cause of death in a long-term follow-up of a population-based COPD cohort. Methods: The study population includes all individuals (n = 551) with COPD defined as chronic airway obstruction (post-bronchodilator FEV1/FVC<0.70) + respiratory symptoms identified after re-examinations of four population-based cohorts. Mortality and underlying or contributing cause of death following ICD-10 classification were collected from the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfares register from date of examination in 2002-04 until 2016. Results: The study sample consisted of 32.3% GOLD 1, 55.9% GOLD 2, and 11.8% GOLD 3-4. The mean follow-up time was 10.3 (SD3.77) years and the cumulative mortality 45.0%. COPD (ICD-10 J43-J44) was recorded on 28.2% (n = 70) of the death certificates (11.1%, 25.7% and 57.1% by GOLD stage), whereof n = 35 had COPD recorded as underlying and n = 35 as contributing cause of death. To have COPD recorded as cause of death was independently associated with ex- and current smoking and a self-reported physician diagnosis of COPD, while male sex, overweight/obesity and higher FEV1% of predicted associated with the absence. Conclusions: COPD was largely underreported cause of death. Even among those with severe/very severe disease, COPD was only mentioned on 57.1% of the death certificates.
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- Sawalha, Sami, 1975-
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease : clinical phenotyping, mortality and causes of death
- 2019
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is common. The estimated prevalence is about 10% among adults, but varies largely dependent on the major risk factors age and smoking. Under-diagnosis of COPD is substantial and is related to disease severity. Thus, subjects with mild to moderate COPD are underrepresented in medical registers among health care providers as well as in national registers. Post- bronchodilator (BD) spirometry is mandatory for the diagnosis of COPD, but not sufficient to assess and manage COPD. Phenotyping based on spirometry and clinical manifestations can make it easier to apply individual assessment of subjects with COPD. COPD is a systemic disease with pulmonary and extra-pulmonary manifestations and comorbidities are common. Comorbidities most probably contribute to the observed increased mortality among subjects with COPD, however, the impact of comorbidities on mortality and causes of death among subjects with mild to moderate COPD is unclear. Furthermore, there seems to be sex-dependent differences with regard to susceptibility to risk factors, clinical manifestation and outcomes.Aim: The overall aim of this thesis was to identify and characterize clinical relevant COPD phenotypes in population-based studies, using spirometry together with clinical characteristics such as respiratory symptoms, exacerbations, and comorbidities, and their impact on mortality and further, also cause of death.Methods: This thesis is based on data from the Obstructive Lung Disease in Northern Sweden (OLIN) COPD study. The study population was recruited in the years 2002-2004, when all 993 individuals with (FEV1/VC<0.70) were identified after examinations of population-based cohorts, together with age- and sex-matched non-obstructive referents (n=in total 1,986). In this thesis, cross-sectional data from recruitment were used together with mortality data from the Swedish Tax Agency from the date of recruitment in 2002-2004 and onwards. Data on cause of death was collected from the Swedish National Board for Health and Welfare register for all deaths until 31 December 2015. Spirometry was used to identify the following spirometric groups, in paper I: Non-COPD (FEV1/VC≥0.70); COPD (pre- BD FEV1/VC<0.70); in paper II: Non- obstructive (FEV1/VC≥0.70), Pre- not post-BD obstructive (pre- not post-BD FEV1/VC<0.70); COPD (post-BD FEV1/VC<0.70); In paper III: Normal Lung Function (NLF, FEV1/VC≥0.7 & FVC≥80% predicted), COPD (post BD FEV1/VC<0.70) and Lower Limit of Normal COPD (LLN-COPD, the LLN criterion applied among those with COPD); in paper IV: NLF and COPD defined as in paper III, and Restrictive Spirometric pattern (RSP, FEV1/VC≥0.70 & FVC<80% predicted). The OLIN-COPD study and collection of data on causes of death were approved by the regional ethical committee at Umeå University.Results: Paper I: Subjects with COPD had more productive cough than non-COPD, and men more than women. Productive cough increased the risk for exacerbations in COPD and non-COPD and productive cough was associated with worse survival in both groups. In adjusted models (HR;95%CI) the increased risk for death associated with productive cough among those with COPD persisted (1.48;1.13-1.94) when compared with non-COPD without productive cough, significantly so also among men with COPD (1.63;1.17-2.26), but not among women (1.23;0.76-1.99).Paper-II: Pre-BD spirometry misclassified every fourth subject as having COPD. Subjects with pre- but not post-BD obstruction were similar to subjects with COPD regarding reported ‘any respiratory symptoms’, asthma before the age of 40, exacerbations, and comorbidities. The cumulative mortality among subjects with pre- not post-BD obstruction was similar to among subjects in the non-obstructive group, still, the survival was better than among those with COPD. The increased risk for death for COPD persisted also in an adjusted model (1.24; 1.04-1.49) when compared with the non-obstructive group, and the pattern was similar among men and women (1.27; 1.00-1.60 and1.24; 0.92-1.13).Paper III: Men with COPD had more CVD and DM compared to women, while anxiety/depression (A/D) was more common among women than men in all spirometric groups. Men had a higher cumulative mortality than women in all groups. However, CVD seemed to have a greater impact on mortality among women than men, while anxiety/depression increased the risk for death similarly in both sexes. The use of the LLN criterion did not change the observed pattern.Paper IV: CVD was the most common cause of death in all spirometric groups, NLF, RSP and COPD, followed by cancer. Those with COPD and RSP had a similar and higher cumulative mortality than those with NLF. RSP and COPD had an increased risk for CVD death and respiratory death, independent of age, sex, smoking habits and BMI-category, however, the increased risk for CVD death did not reach statistical significance in RSP. In all the groups, the risk for deaths due to cancer was similar, however, lung cancer was more common in COPD than in NLF and RSP. The pattern was fairly similar among men and women. Conclusions: Simple diagnostic procedures like history of respiratory symptoms, exacerbations, and comorbidity can, together with spirometry, contribute with important clinical classification of prognostic importance. Productive cough increased the risk for exacerbations in both COPD and non-COPD. The highest risk for exacerbations and death was observed among subjects with COPD and productive cough. It was impossible to distinguish COPD from those with pre- not post-BD obstruction based on the history of respiratory symptoms, asthma, exacerbations and comorbidities. Still, COPD was associated with an increased risk for death while pre- not post-BD obstruction had better survival than COPD but similar as non-obstructive. There were sex-dependent differences regarding comorbidities and mortality. CVD was less common among women but had a greater impact on mortality compared to among men while A/D, less common among men, increased the risk for death similarly in both sexes. CVD and cancer were the most common causes of death in all spirometric groups. RSP had a similar and higher mortality as COPD when compared with NLF. The risk for cancer-related death was similar in all groups, while the results indicated that COPD and RSP had an increased risk for CVD and respiratory death.
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