The Association Between Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Panagis Galiatsatos,1 Han Woo,1 Laura M Paulin,2 Amy Kind,3,4 Nirupama Putcha,1 Amanda J Gassett,5 Christopher B Cooper,6 Mark T Dransfield,7 Trisha M Parekh,7 Gabriela R Oates,8 R Graham Barr,9 Alejandro P Comellas,10 Meilan K Han,11 Stephen P Peters,12 Jerry A Krishnan,13 Wassim W Labaki,11 Meredith C McCormack,1 Joel D Kaufman,14 Nadia N Hansel1 1Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; 2Pulmonary and Critical Care, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA; 3University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Medicine Health Services and Care Research Program and Division of Geriatrics, Madison, WI, USA; 4Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, Wm. S. Middleton Veterans Hospital, Madison, WI, USA; 5Internal Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; 6Department of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA; 7Department of Medicine, University of Alabama Birmingham and Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, AL, USA; 8Department of Medicine, University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA; 9Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA; 10Internal Medicine and Pulmonary, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA; 11Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; 12Department of Medicine, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC, USA; 13Department of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA; 14Office of the Dean, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA, USACorrespondence: Panagis GaliatsatosJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 4940 Eastern Avenue, Asthma and Allergy Building, 4th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21224, USATel +1410 550-0522Fax +1410 550-1094Email panagis@jhmi.eduRationale: Individual socioeconomic status has been shown to influence the outcomes of p