Burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in adults aged 70 years and older, 1990–2021: Findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

• Kaifang Meng ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kaifang Meng, Xu Chen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital Clinical College of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

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• Xu Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kaifang Meng, Xu Chen

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation School of Public Health and Healthcare Management, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, Jiangxi, People’s Republic of China

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• Zhishang Chen,

  Roles Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Department of Intensive Care Unit, Xuzhou Center Hospital, The Affiliated Xuzhou Hospital of Medical College of Southeast University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

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• Jing Xu

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: 12764543@qq.com

  Affiliations Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The Second People’s Hospital of Fuyang City, Fuyang, Anhui, People’s Republic of China, Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Fuyang Infection Disease Clinical College of Anhui Medical University, Fuyang, Anhui, People’s Republic of China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4310-653X

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