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Prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) defined by different criteria by region. The dark grey bar represents ‘symptom-based COPD’, grey bar represents ‘doctor-diagnosed COPD’ and the white bar represents ‘symptom-based or doctor-diagnosed COPD’ participants.
