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COPD

What research knows about COPD comes from people who live with it. Here is how many do, what records they usually have, and what sharing yours is worth.

Living with it

391.9 million

People aged 30 to 79 with COPD (GOLD definition), 2019

source

New diagnoses

One every 1.9 seconds

16.9 million a year, worldwide

source

How rare

Common

about 490 in 10,000 people

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What patients usually have

The records behind COPD

  • COPD review

    Doctor's letters

    at least once per year, more often if indicated

    guideline
  • Annual flu vaccination and pneumococcal vaccination

    Vaccination record

    annual flu vaccination

    guideline
  • Long-term oxygen therapy review with pulse oximetry

    Health record extract

    at least once per year

    guideline
  • Review for very severe COPD

    Doctor's letters

    at least twice per year

    guideline

What sharing it is worth

$98

per licence for a complete story and one year of these records, $98 to $1,243

Value your own data
  • Your health story$23how
  • Doctor's lettersx3$8.40how
  • Vaccination recordx1$0.70how
  • Lab resultsx1$0.24how
  • Richness premium (4 kinds of data linked)x3how

A benchmark from published prices, not a promise: contributors earn a share each time a licence includes their data. How the benchmark works · What health data sells for

Already paid elsewhere

What people with COPD have been paid for sharing

Published payments for a research interview or survey about it. What patients are paid for research

  • COPD

    $120

    COPD patients, 60-minute phone interview

    Rat Race Rebellion, 2025source

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