Comparing data sources in estimating disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for ischemic heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in a cross-sectional setting in Finland

Table 3 Prevalences and YLL, YLD and DALYs for COPD in Finland per 1000 population using administrative health register and self-reported survey data from the FINRISK 2012 survey

	The Care Register for Health Care^a	Registers of the Social Insurance Institution^b	All registers combined	Self-reported data (HES)	All data sources combined
Males
YLL per 1000 = 4.7
Prevalence (%)	0.8	0.6	1.1	1.2	1.6
YLD per 1000	1.0	0.8	1.3	1.5	2.0
DALYs per 1000	5.7	5.5	6.0	6.2	6.7
Females
YLL per 1000 = 2.0
Prevalence (%)	0.5	0.7	0.9	0.8	1.3
YLD per 1000	0.6	0.9	1.1	1.0	1.6
DALYs per 1000	2.6	2.9	3.1	3.0	3.6

YLL Years of life lost, YLD Years lived with disability, DALYs Disability-adjusted life years, COPD Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, HES Health examination survey
^aThe Care Register for Health Care includes hospital inpatient episodes since 1969 and specialist outpatient visits since 1998
^bData on the 1) entitlement to specially reimbursed medicines and 2) purchase of prescribed COPD medicines from the Registers of the Social Insurance Institution of Finland combined

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