Clinical Epidemiology of COPD: Insights From 10 Years of the COPDGene Study

Diego J Maselli; Surya P Bhatt; Antonio Anzueto; Russell P Bowler; Dawn L DeMeo; Alejandro A Diaz; Mark T Dransfield; Ashraf Fawzy; Marilyn G Foreman; Nicola A Hanania; Craig P Hersh; Victor Kim; Gregory L Kinney; Nirupama Putcha; Emily S Wan; J Michael Wells; Gloria E Westney; Kendra A Young; Edwin K Silverman; MeiLan K Han; Barry J Make

doi:10.1016/j.chest.2019.04.135

Clinical Epidemiology of COPD: Insights From 10 Years of the COPDGene Study

Chest. 2019 Aug;156(2):228-238. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2019.04.135. Epub 2019 May 30.

Authors

Diego J Maselli¹, Surya P Bhatt², Antonio Anzueto¹, Russell P Bowler³, Dawn L DeMeo⁴, Alejandro A Diaz⁵, Mark T Dransfield², Ashraf Fawzy⁶, Marilyn G Foreman⁷, Nicola A Hanania⁸, Craig P Hersh⁴, Victor Kim⁹, Gregory L Kinney¹⁰, Nirupama Putcha⁶, Emily S Wan¹¹, J Michael Wells², Gloria E Westney⁷, Kendra A Young¹⁰, Edwin K Silverman⁴, MeiLan K Han¹², Barry J Make¹³

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care, UT Health San Antonio, and South Texas Veterans Health System, San Antonio, TX.
² Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.
³ Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO.
⁴ Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
⁵ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
⁶ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
⁷ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
⁸ Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
⁹ Department of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.
¹⁰ Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO.
¹¹ Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; VA Boston Healthcare System, Jamaica Plain, MA.
¹² Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI.
¹³ Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO. Electronic address: makeb@NJHealth.org.

Abstract

The Genetic Epidemiology of COPD (COPDGene) study is a noninterventional, multicenter, longitudinal analysis of > 10,000 subjects, including smokers with a ≥ 10 pack-year history with and without COPD and healthy never smokers. The goal was to characterize disease-related phenotypes and explore associations with susceptibility genes. The subjects were extensively phenotyped with the use of comprehensive symptom and comorbidity questionnaires, spirometry, CT scans of the chest, and genetic and biomarker profiling. The objective of this review was to summarize the major advances in the clinical epidemiology of COPD from the first 10 years of the COPDGene study. We highlight the influence of age, sex, and race on the natural history of COPD, and the impact of comorbid conditions, chronic bronchitis, exacerbations, and asthma/COPD overlap.

Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00608764.

Keywords: COPD; COPDGene; chronic bronchitis; comorbidities; epidemiology; sex.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Aged
Case-Control Studies
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / complications
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / epidemiology*
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / genetics*
Smoking / epidemiology*

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ClinicalTrials.gov/NCT00608764

Abstract

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