Table 2.
COPD-incidences for women with age at diagnosis, hospital admissions and income levels as indicator of socioeconomic position at an annual basis; no percentages for total numbers are given because cases are included in more than one year, depending on length of insurance periods.
| 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subjects | Number | 955,491 | 948,078 | 948,703 | 1,050,915 | 1,054,591 | 1,049,689 | 1,043,450 | 1,044,557 | 1,058,461 | 1,096,539 | 1,140,260 | 1,177,884 |
| Age mean/Sd, yr | 54.52/ 20.29 | 54.49/ 20.36 | 54.40/ 20.42 | 53.84/ 20.36 | 53.78/ 20.41 | 53.78/ 20.43 | 53.78/ 20.43 | 53.71/ 20.45 | 53.41/ 20.44 | 52.92/ 20.40 | 52.43/ 20.32 | 52.11/ 20.21 | |
| COPDincidences | Number | 8,622 | 7,279 | 7,983 | 7,286 | 6,852 | 7,205 | 6,325 | 6,350 | 5,903 | 5,254 | 5,164 | 4,884 |
| % *1) | 0.89% | 0.76% | 0.83% | 0.69% | 0.65% | 0.68% | 0.60% | 0.60% | 0.55% | 0.48% | 0.45% | 0.41% | |
| Age mean/Sd, yr | 58.18/ 16.26 | 57.18/16.77 | 58.67/16.58 | 57.23/16.70 | 57.66/ 16.72 | 57.59/ 16.80 | 57.44/ 17.13 | 58.58/16.74 | 58.54/17.13 | 58.72/17.16 | 58.91/16.72 | 58.77/16.71 | |
| Hospital admissions | Number | 107 | 91 | 82 | 104 | 84 | 85 | 83 | 68 | 67 | 77 | 54 | 55 |
| % *2) | 1.24 | 1.25 | 1.03 | 1.43 | 1.23 | 1.18 | 1.31 | 1.07 | 1.14 | 1.47 | 1.05 | 1.13 | |
| Age mean/Sd, yr | 72.17/12.63 | 71.69/12.53 | 72.33/12.92 | 71.55/ 12.84 | 71.45/ 12.74 | 71.96/12.42 | 71.49/ 13.12 | 71.49/ 12.39 | 71.30/ 12.33 | 71.58/ 12.10 | 71.44/ 11.99 | 71.25/ 12.33 | |
| Income levels N / % | < 40% | 349,824/ 36.28% | 340,257/ 35.62% | 340,564/ 35.60% | 373,546 / 35.30% | 376,773/ 35.50% | 378,216/ 35.79% | 368,708/ 35.12% | 362,227/ 34.47% | 390,893/36.73% | 395,293/35.88% | 407,067/35.54% | 405,611 /34.29% |
| 40–80% | 235,352/ 24.41% | 238,669/ 24.98% | 239,623/ 27.05% | 239,623 / 24.55% | 262,794/24.76% | 263,201/ 24.90% | 267,886/ 25.52% | 281,483/ 26.78% | 288,468/ 27.10% | 303,461/ 27.54% | 317,559/27.72% | 337,615/28.54% | |
| > 80% | 68,284 / 7.08% | 73,775/ 7.72% | 75,242/ 7.86% | 75,242 / 7.79% | 84,988/ 8.01% | 85,660/ 8.10% | 88,932/ 8.47% | 93,420/ 8.89% | 98,889/ 9.29% | 111,667/ 10.14% | 124,447/10.86% | 139,412/11.79% | |
| Income missing | 310,653/ 32.22% | 301,257/ 31.68% | 215,430/ 31.49% | 301,257 / 32.36% | 336,888/ 31.74% | 329,817/ 31.21% | 324,249/ 30.89% | 313,777/ 29.86% | 286,114/ 26.88% | 291,372/ 26.45% | 296,351/25.87% | 300,130/25.38% |
*1) Percentages of case numbers of a given year; *2) Percentages of hospital admissions of spirometry-based COPD-cases of a given year; yr.: years; Sd: Standard deviation.