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Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med., Volume 165, Number 5, March 2002, 704-707

The Impact of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease on Work Loss in the United States

DON D. SIN, TANIA STAFINSKI, YING CHU NG, NEIL R. BELL, and PHILIP JACOBS

Departments of Medicine (Pulmonary Division), Public Health Sciences, and Family Medicine, University of Alberta, Institute of Health Economics, Alberta, Canada; and Department of Economics, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a rapidly growing public health problem in the United States and elsewhere. Although direct costs of COPD are well documented, the impact of COPD and its severity on labor force participation is not well known. Using population-based data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III), we determined the adjusted relationship between COPD (and its severity) and labor force participation in the U.S. We used data from 12,436 participants involved in NHANES III; 1,073 of these participants (8.6% of the total) reported COPD. These participants were 3.9% (95% confidence interval, 1.3% to 6.4%) less likely to be in the labor force than those without COPD. Increasing severity of COPD was associated with decreased probability of being in the labor force (p for linear trend = 0.001). Mild, moderate, and severe COPD was associated with a 3.4%, 3.9%, and 14.4% reduction in the labor force participation rate relative to those without COPD. These data suggest that COPD has a considerable adverse impact on work force participation. Based on these data, we estimate that, in 1994, COPD was responsible for work loss of approximately $9.9 billion in the U.S.




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