title: The worldwide burden of COPD is on the increase.
authors.affiliation: Primary Care Nursing, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire, Eastern Deanery.
authors.forename: Sue
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cross
mesh_terms: D002423:Cause of Death; D017281:Cost of Illness; D005544:Forecasting; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000453:epidemiology