Table 2.

Overall, age-specific, and sex-specific crude incidence rates of COPD per 100,000 person-years

Age groups, years	Overall, COPD IR	Men, COPD IR	Women, COPD IR
40–49	713.9	1,104.5	332.9
50–59	1,288.4	2,430.3	327.3
60–69	2,888.5	6,137.6	1,105.3
All age categories	1,447.8	2,541.6	564.7

Abbreviation: IR, incidence rate.