Characteristics of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Spain from a gender perspective

BMC Pulmonary Medicine

Table 4 Utilization of health care resources in the previous year among the COPD patients according to gender and smoking habit.

Health care resources	Male non-smokers	Male smokers	Female non-smokers	Female smokers
No. visits to primary care * † Ŧ	(625) 5.91 ± 5.67	(7045) 6.77 ± 5.75	(1724) 6.69 ± 5.72	(731) 6.18 ± 5.30
No. visits to pneumology clinic *	(602) 1.30 ± 1.53	(6838) 1.47 ± 1.54	(1640) 1.37 ± 1.40	(706) 1.32 ± 1.59
No. visits to emergency service * Ŧ	(581) 1.70 ± 0.81	(6608) 1.90 ± 0.87	(1592) 1.84 ± 0.86	(684) 1.84 ± 0.89
No. hospital admissions *	(523) 0.36 ± 0.83	(6026) 0.54 ± 1.27	(1429) 0.44 ± 0.93	(598) 0.41 ± 0.94
Duration hospital stay (days) *	(262) 5.74 ± 10.49	(3325) 7.67 ± 11.54	(773) 6.26 ± 10.37	(335) 6.27 ± 14.00

* Significant difference in the comparison of male smokers versus male non-smokers.
+ Significant difference in the comparison of female smokers versus female non-smokers.
† Significant difference in the comparison of male smokers versus female smokers, after adjusting by age and severity.
Ŧ Significant difference in the comparison of male non-smokers versus female non-smokers, after adjusting by age and severity.

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