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R package for the Evaluation Platform in COPD (EPIC), an agent-based whole-disease model for projection of health and economic outcomes and COPD interventions.
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Mortality of former smokers higher than current and never smokers #48

Open aminadibi opened 7 years ago

aminadibi commented 7 years ago

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aminadibi commented 7 years ago

@shahzadg and I think maybe average PYs is significantly higher in former smokers. To test for this, let's compare average packyears at the time of death for former and current smokers.

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Current smokers: image

aminadibi commented 7 years ago

@shahzadg check this out. Seems current smokers still have higher PYs at the time of death, compared with former smokers. Not clear why former smokers ppl have higher mortality.

aminadibi commented 7 years ago

And if death by COPD is disabled, we still have:

Former Smokers: image

Current Smokers: image