It is time for the world to take COPD seriously: a statement from the GOLD board of directors

Affiliations

• ¹ University of Exeter Medical School, College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK d.m.g.halpin@ex.ac.uk.
• ² Brigham and Women's Hospital, Pulmonary Division, Boston, MA, USA.
• ³ Dept of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• ⁴ Flinders University College of Medicine and Public Health, Adelaide, Australia.
• ⁵ Cátedra de Neumología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República Hospital Maciel, Montevideo, Uruguay.
• ⁶ Chest Research Foundation, Pune, India.
• ⁷ Dept of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University Medical Centre Giessen and Marburg, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Marburg, Germany.
• ⁸ Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, State Key Lab of Respiratory Disease and National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
• ⁹ Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK.
• ¹⁰ Hospital Universitario de Caracas, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela.
• ¹¹ Dept of Pulmonology, N.I. Pirogov Russian State National Research Medical University, Healthcare Ministry of Russia, Moscow, Russia.
• ¹² Dept of Medicine, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
• ¹³ Program Director, Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease.
• ¹⁴ Institut Respiratori, Hospital Clínic, IDIBAPS Universitat de Barcelona, CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias, Barcelona, Spain.