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September 10, 2025Journal of Clinical MedicineOpen Access

Sex-Based Disparities in Clinical Burden and Diagnostic Delay in COPD: Insights from Primary Care

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MRMyriam Calle RubioUniversidad Complutense de Madrid SESoha EsmailiUniversidad Complutense de Madrid IEIman EsmailiEP Analytics (United States)

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Cross-sectional analysis reveals greater clinical burden and longer diagnostic delays for women with COPD, highlighting significant sex-based disparities.

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Women with COPD experience greater symptom burden and longer diagnostic delays compared to men.
At diagnosis, women exhibited lower predicted FEV1 (50.4% vs. 61.4%) and higher diagnostic complexity scores (403.5 vs. 272.0).
The cross-sectional analysis was conducted in 166 newly diagnosed COPD patients from Spanish primary care settings.
These findings suggest the importance of utilizing composite metrics to better identify and address disparities in COPD diagnosis in routine practice.

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Calle et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c1924e9b7b07f3a0616a4a https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm14176258

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Cross-sectional analysis reveals greater clinical burden and longer diagnostic delays for women with COPD, highlighting significant sex-based disparities.

Sex-Based Disparities in Clinical Burden and Diagnostic Delay in COPD: Insights from Primary Care

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Sex-Based Disparities in Clinical Burden and Diagnostic Delay in COPD: Insights from Primary Care

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