Series ‘‘the Global Burden of Chronic Obstructive
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CONTENTS Introduction: an international workshop on the global burden of COPD K.R. Chapman, A.S. Buist, D.M. Mannino, J.B. Soriano and P.A. Vermeire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 Worldwide epidemiology of COPD and BOLD A.S. Buist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 Surveillance of COPD: lessons from cancer M.J. Thun, C. Connell and A. Jemal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 Global economic costs and modelling in COPD T.A. Lee and M. Miravitlles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 Tobacco and other causes of COPD S. Aldington and R. Beasley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
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