New report highlights region-specific patterns in COPD mortality over last decade in US

From 1999 to 2019, overall age-adjusted COPD mortality did not change significantly among women in the U.S., but rates increased among women living in the Midwest and in small metropolitan or nonmetropolitan areas.
Among men, overall age-adjusted COPD mortality rates decreased during the same period (–1.3%), but rates remained higher than in women. Rates for men declined in all urban-rural areas and in all regions of the U.S., according to a new report published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
“Although rates in men remain higher than those in women, declines have occurred

From 1999 to 2019, overall age-adjusted COPD mortality did not change significantly among women in the U.S., but rates increased among women living in the Midwest and in small metropolitan or nonmetropolitan areas.
Among men, overall age-adjusted COPD mortality rates decreased during the same period (–1.3%), but rates remained higher than in women. Rates for men declined in all urban-rural areas and in all regions of the U.S., according to a new report published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
“Although rates in men remain higher than those in women, declines have occurred