{"id":5952,"date":"2021-07-02T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=5952"},"modified":"2021-07-02T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T17:00:00","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-adults-aged-18-years-or-older-with-diagnosed-chronic-obstructive-pulmonary-disease-by-urbanization-level-and-age-group-national-health-interview-survey-united-sta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2021\/07\/02\/5952\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Aged 18 Years or Older with Diagnosed Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, by Urbanization Level and Age Group \u2014 National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7026a3.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/figures\/mm7026a3-F.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"387\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2019, the percentage of adults aged 18 years or older with diagnosed chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was higher among those living in nonmetropolitan areas (8.0%) than among those living in metropolitan areas (4.0%). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Percentages were higher in nonmetropolitan areas for adults aged 45\u201364 years (10.0% versus 4.8%) and aged 65 years or older (14.5% versus 9.5%), but the difference by urbanization level was not statistically significant for adults aged 18\u201344 years (1.9% versus 1.2%). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prevalence of diagnosed COPD increased with age in both nonmetropolitan and metropolitan areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey, 2019.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7026a3.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmw<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7026a3.htm\">r\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7026a3.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2019, the percentage of adults aged 18 years or older with diagnosed chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was higher among those living in nonmetropolitan areas (8.0%) than among those living in metropolitan areas (4.0%). Percentages were higher in nonmetropolitan areas for adults aged 45\u201364 years (10.0% versus 4.8%) and aged 65 years or older<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62260,53746,53752,57495,63801],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}