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Gender-specific hospital admissions among COPD patients at baseline and at 24 months
| Type of hospital admission | Males | Females | ||||
| Baseline n (%) | 24 months n (%) | % difference | Baseline n (%) | 24 months n (%) | % difference | |
| Any diagnosis | 160 (25.4) | 128 (20.3) | 5.1 | 74 (21.6) | 56 (16.4) | 5.2 |
| COPD as primary or secondary diagnosis | 47 (7.5) | 30 (4.8) | 2.7 | 20 (5.8) | 9 (2.6) | 3.2 |
| COPD as primary diagnosis | 6 (1.0) | 0 (0) | 1.0 | 4 (1.2) | 1 (0.3) | 0.8 |
