TY - JOUR AU - Blanco, Ignacio AU - Diego, Isidro AU - Bueno, Patricia AU - Fernández, Eloy AU - Casas-Maldonado, Francisco AU - Esquinas, Cristina AU - Soriano, Joan B AU - Miravitlles, Marc PY - 2017 DO - 10.2147/COPD.S150853 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10668/11987 T2 - International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease AB - Existing data on COPD prevalence are limited or totally lacking in many regions of Europe. The geographic information system inverse distance weighted (IDW) interpolation technique has proved to be an effective tool in spatial distribution estimation... LA - en KW - GIS KW - Geographic Resources Analysis Support System KW - epidemiology KW - geographic information system KW - Adult KW - Aged KW - Europe KW - Female KW - Geographic Information Systems KW - Health Surveys KW - Humans KW - Male KW - Middle Aged KW - Multivariate Analysis KW - Predictive Value of Tests KW - Prevalence KW - Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive KW - Spatial Analysis KW - Spirometry TI - Geographical distribution of COPD prevalence in Europe, estimated by an inverse distance weighting interpolation technique. TY - research article VL - 13 ER -