EDITORIAL
The burden of lung disease
The burden of lung disease
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Professor R Hubbard
British Lung Foundation Professor of Respiratory Epidemiology, Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG5 1PB, UK; richard.hubbard@nottingham.ac.uk
A timely reminder of the needs of people with respiratory disease in the UK
Keywords: respiratory medicine; government policy; British Thoracic Society
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The range of clinical conditions included under the umbrella of "respiratory medicine" is wide. From cancers to obstructive sleep apnoea, interstitial lung disease to airways disease, occupational lung disease to respiratory infections, there is a variety present in respiratory medicine not seen in other hospital based specialties. This diversity makes respiratory medicine a deeply rewarding specialty in which to work, but also means that it is not easy to quantify the full impact of lung disease on the health of the British public.
For this reason, the British Thoracic Society has produced the second edition of "The Burden of Lung Disease" which includes a number of statistics that may be startling to the casual reader and of interest to those involved in resource allocation in the NHS.1 For example, of the 580 000 deaths each year in the UK, one in five is
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