Importance for surveillance on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease among Chinese adults.
10.3760/cma.j.issn.0254-6450.2018.05.001
- VernacularTitle:中国居民慢性阻塞性肺疾病监测意义重大
- Author:
L W FANG
1
;
L H WANG
Author Information
1. Division of Respiratory Diseases Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic and Non-communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 100050, China.
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Awareness;
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease;
Risk factor;
Spirometry examination;
Surveillance
- MeSH:
Adult;
Aged;
Air Pollution, Indoor/statistics & numerical data*;
China/epidemiology*;
Chronic Disease/epidemiology*;
Dust;
Female;
Humans;
Male;
Occupational Exposure/statistics & numerical data*;
Population Surveillance/methods*;
Prevalence;
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/prevention & control*;
Risk Factors;
Smoking;
Spirometry;
Tobacco Smoke Pollution/statistics & numerical data*
- From:
Chinese Journal of Epidemiology
2018;39(5):541-545
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
The first national surveillance of COPD in mainland China was carried out in 2014, with the nationally representative data obtained. The national surveillance was significantly important for the monitoring of prevalence, risk factors, and changing trend of COPD among Chinese adults aged ≥ 40. The surveillance was also important in the development of national COPD prevention and control policy, the evaluation of prevention and control progress, the establishment of COPD comprehensive surveillance system, and the building of a professional COPD monitoring and prevention team. In this editorial, we briefly introduced the method and content of COPD surveillance, and reported the rate of spirometry examination and COPD awareness among adults aged ≥40 in China. We also analyzed the rate of main risk factors for COPD, such as tobacco smoking, occupational exposure to dust or chemical and indoor exposure to biomass or coal, and the distribution of high-risk population. This study provided fundamental data for the prevention and control of COPD in China.
