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Emphysema mortality is increased in Colorado residents at high altitude.
American Review of Respiratory Disease 1982 August
Emphysema mortality is higher in Colorado than in the nation as a whole despite the younger age of Colorado's population Colorado death records from 1959 to 1976 were examined to determine if emphysema mortality increases with altitude within the state and if altitude adversely affects survival from chronic lung disease. Because the proportion of persons older than 65 yr of age in Colorado decreases with altitude (r = -0.6, p less than 0.01), emphysema mortality was age-standardized. The age-standardized rate increases with altitude among males (r = 0.9, p less than 0.01; y = 0.003(x) + 42.1). Emphysema deaths at higher altitudes in Colorado (greater than or equal to 7,000 ft) occur at a younger age (68.1 +/- 0.6 yr (mean +/- SEM) versus 70.1 +/- 0.6 yr at lower altitudes), after a shorter duration of illness, and more commonly from cor pulmonale than at lower altitudes (less than or equal to 4,500 ft) where pneumonia is more common as the immediate cause of death. The mechanism by which high altitude residence interacts unfavorably with survival is not known but may stem from augmented pulmonary hypertension caused by the hypoxia of lung disease added to the hypoxia of high altitude.
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