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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
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Occupational exposures and 20-year incidence of COPD: the European Community Respiratory Health Survey

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  • Theodore Lytras Barcelona Institute of Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Manolis Kogevinas Barcelona Institute of Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Hans Kromhout IRAS, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Anne-Elie Carsin Barcelona Institute of Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Josep M Antó Barcelona Institute of Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Hayat Bentouhami Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine (ESOC), Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Joost Weyler Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine (ESOC), Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium StatUA Statistics Centre, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Joachim Heinrich Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, University Hospital of Ludwig Maximilians University, Comprehensive Pneumology Centre Munich, German Centre for Lung Research, Munich, Germany PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Dennis Nowak Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, University Hospital of Ludwig Maximilians University, Comprehensive Pneumology Centre Munich, German Centre for Lung Research, Munich, Germany PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Isabel Urrutia Pulmonology Department, Galdakao Hospital, Bizkaia, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jesús Martinez-Moratalla Servicio de Neumología, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario, Albacete, Spain Facultad de Medicina Albacete, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • José Antonio Gullón Respiratory Department, Hospital Universitario San Agustín, Aviles, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Antonio Pereira-Vega Respiratory and Allergy Clinical Unit, Universitary Hospitalary Complex, Huelva, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Chantal Raherison-Semjen Université de Bordeaux, Inserm, Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, team EPICENE, UMR 1219, Bordeaux, France PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Isabelle Pin Department of Pédiatrie, CHU de Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France Inserm, U1209, IAB, Team of Environmental Epidemiology Applied to Reproduction and Respiratory Health, Grenoble, France Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Pascal Demoly University Hospital of Montpellier, Montpellier, France Sorbonne Universités, Paris, France PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Bénédicte Leynaert Inserm UMR 1152-Equipe Epidémiologie, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Simona Villani Department of Health Sciences, Experimental and Forensic Medicine - Unit of Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Thorarinn Gislason Department of Respiratory Medicine and Sleep, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Cecilie Svanes Department of Occupational Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Mathias Holm Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Bertil Forsberg Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Dan Norbäck Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Amar J Mehta Research and Evaluation Office, Boston Public Health Commission, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Nicole Probst-Hensch Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Geza Benke Monash Centre for Occupation and Environmental Health, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Rain Jogi Lung Clinic, Tartu University Hospital, Tartu, Estonia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Kjell Torén Section of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Torben Sigsgaard Department of Public Health, Section for Environment, Occupation and Health, Danish Ramazzini Center, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Vivi Schlünssen Department of Public Health, Section for Environment, Occupation and Health, Danish Ramazzini Center, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark National Research Center for the Working Environment, Copenhagen, Denmark PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Mario Olivieri Unit of Occupational Medicine, University Hospital of Verona, Verona, Italy PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Paul D Blanc University of California San Francisco, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Roel Vermeulen IRAS, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Judith Garcia-Aymerich Barcelona Institute of Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Deborah Jarvis Population Health and Occupational Disease, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jan-Paul Zock Barcelona Institute of Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Theodore Lytras, Barcelona Institute of Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona 08003, Spain; thlytras{at}gmail.com
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Citation

Lytras T, Kogevinas M, Kromhout H, et al
Occupational exposures and 20-year incidence of COPD: the European Community Respiratory Health Survey
Thorax 2018;73:1008-1015.

Publication history

  • Received October 13, 2017
  • Revised February 16, 2018
  • Accepted February 26, 2018
  • First published March 24, 2018.
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September 01, 2022

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