Nov 17, 2020

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease prevalence and prediction in a high-risk lung cancer screening population

BMC pulmonary medicine
John R Goffin, Gregory R Pond, Serge Puksa, Alain Tremblay, Michael Johnston, Glen Goss, Garth Nicholas, Simon Martel, Rick Bhatia, Geoffrey Liu, Heidi Schmidt, Sukhinder Atkar-Khattra, Annette McWilliams, Ming-Sound Tsao, Martin C Tammemagi, Stephen Lam
CONCLUSIONS: COPD had a high prevalence in a lung cancer screening population. While a risk model had poor discrimination, all deciles of risk had a high prevalence of COPD, and spirometry could be considered as an additional test in lung cancer screening programs.