European Community Respiratory Health Survey III

哮喘和慢性阻塞性肺病是老年人健康不良的主要原因。在成年早期患有哮喘和过敏症可能会增加晚年患COPD的风险。这是健康规划的关注点，因为患有哮喘和过敏症的人口比例正在增加。二十年来，我们一直在研究大约10000名成年人，我们想再次研究他们，评估他们的呼吸系统健康状况。很少有研究能让这么多人接受如此长时间的监测，并在20多年前对呼吸系统健康和过敏状况进行详细测量。我们将检查研究参与者的变化？健康，评估哮喘和过敏与COPD的关系，并评估可能影响呼吸系统疾病的因素的重要性，如肥胖，体育锻炼和饮食。

Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are major causes of ill-health in older people. Having asthma and allergy in early adult life may increase the risk of having COPD in later years. This is of concern for health planning because the proportion of the population with asthma and allergy is increasing. We have been studying about 10000 adults for twenty years, and we would like to study them again and assess their respiratory health. There are few studies in which so many people have been monitored over such a long period of time and had detailed measures of respiratory health and allergic status made more than 20 years ago. We will examine changes in study participants? health, assess the relationship of asthma and allergy with COPD and assess the importance of factors that may influence respiratory disease, such as obesity, physical exercise and diet.