Global burden, trends and projections analysis of interstitial lung disease and pulmonary sarcoidosis in elderly adults (aged 55+ Years) based on GBD 2021

• Zhilan Huang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zhilan Huang, Tingyi Xie

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Fourth Clinical Medical College of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0008-9748-9186

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• Tingyi Xie ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zhilan Huang, Tingyi Xie

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Fourth Clinical Medical College of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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• Mingwen Tang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Shenzhen, China

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• Zhuni Chen,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Shenzhen, China

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• Dan Jia,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Shenzhen, China

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• Anqi Su,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation The Fourth Clinical Medical College of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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• Zhujin Jin,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Fourth Clinical Medical College of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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• Tuliang Liang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: 727978606@qq.com (TL); xiew0703@163.com (WX)

  Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Shenzhen, China

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• Wei Xie

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: 727978606@qq.com (TL); xiew0703@163.com (WX)

  Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Shenzhen, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0005-0909-5557

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