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Period effects reflect diagnostic expansion and cohort effects reflect improving respiratory exposure for self-reported chronic lung disease: a harmonised age–period–cohort analysis of seven ageing cohorts across three continents

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Tingshan Xu, Lingxuan Wang, Lin Chen,
Show 3 more authorsDonglin Li, Liying Yu, Fei He,
Yuan Xu

Fujian Medical University · Second Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University

Research Square · 24 Aug 2026 · Preprint, not peer-reviewed

doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-10527141/v1