Hwang Yong Il, Park Yong Bum, Yoo Kwang Ha
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Anyang, Korea.
Lung Research Institute of Hallym University College of Medicine, Chuncheon, Korea.
Tuberc Respir Dis (Seoul). 2017 Jul;80(3):226-229. doi: 10.4046/trd.2017.80.3.226. Epub 2017 Jul 3.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) had been considered the only major disease that is continuing to increase in prevalence. There were a few studies about the change of the prevalence of COPD, which showed the prevalence of COPD did not increase. In this review, we report on the trends in the prevalence of COPD in Korea using the data from Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES). The prevalence of COPD in 2015 was 13.4% (male, 21.6%; female, 5.8%). The prevalence of COPD did not change much, which ranged from 13.1% to 14.6% during the period from 2010 to 2015. Among the subjects found to have COPD by spirometry, only 2.8% had been diagnosed as COPD by physicians during the period from 2011 and 2015. In conclusion, the prevalence of COPD did not change significantly during the period from 2010 to 2015. And most COPD patients still had not been diagnosed by physicians and consequently had not been treated appropriately.
慢性阻塞性肺疾病(COPD)曾被认为是唯一一种患病率持续上升的主要疾病。关于COPD患病率变化的研究较少,这些研究表明COPD的患病率并未上升。在本综述中,我们利用韩国国家健康与营养检查调查(KNHANES)的数据报告了韩国COPD患病率的趋势。2015年COPD的患病率为13.4%(男性为21.6%;女性为5.8%)。COPD的患病率变化不大,在2010年至2015年期间,其患病率在13.1%至14.6%之间。在通过肺活量测定法发现患有COPD的受试者中,在2011年至2015年期间,只有2.8%的人被医生诊断为COPD。总之,在2010年至2015年期间,COPD的患病率没有显著变化。而且大多数COPD患者仍未被医生诊断出来,因此也没有得到适当的治疗。