TY  - JOUR
T1  - Trends in population burden of copd: Actual facts or fallacies?—reply
AU  - Gershon AS, Wang C, Wilton AS, Raut R, To T
Y1  - 2010/08/09
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.260
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 1408
EP  - 1410
VL  - 170
IS  - 15
N2  - 
We thank Bischoff, Crockett, and Schermer for their interest in our article, their insightful comments, and the opportunity to respond to them. They have correctly pointed out that the sex-stratified prevalence trends in Figure 1 of our article1 have been mislabeled. The male and female labels in the legend have been switched. The data from Ontario, Canada, which is depicted correctly in Table 1 of our article and in the text, agrees with the prevalence trends they described in the Netherlands—specifically, a consistently higher prevalence of COPD in men but also a trend showing that the prevalence in women is catching up with men.2 We thank them for pointing out this error. We have informed the Archives, and a correction was published in the June 28, 2010, issue.

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.260
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2010.260
ER  -