Familial transmission of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in adoptees: a Swedish nationwide family study.

Summary, in English

Familial clustering of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is well established, but the familial risk of COPD has not been determined among adoptees. The aim was to determine whether the familial transmission of COPD is related to disease in biological and/or adoptive parents.

• Författare: Bengt Zöller; Xinjun Li; Jan Sundquist; Kristina Sundquist
• Avdelning/ar: Allmänmedicin och klinisk epidemiologi; Allmänmedicin, kardiovaskulär epidemiologi och levnadsvanor; EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health
• Publiceringsår: 2015
• Språk: Engelska
• Sidor: 007310-007310
• Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: BMJ Open
• Volym: 5
• Issue: 4
• Fulltext: - 9 kB; Download statistics
• Länkar: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25869691?dopt=Abstract; http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-007310
• Dokumenttyp: Artikel i tidskrift
• Förlag: BMJ Publishing Group
• Ämne: Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
• Status: Published
• Forskningsgrupp: Family Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology; Family Medicine, Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Lifestyle
• ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt: ISSN: 2044-6055