TY - JOUR T1 - Ageing lungs and very elderly COPD: anytime and anywhere JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J SP - 379 LP - 381 DO - 10.1183/13993003.01806-2015 VL - 47 IS - 2 AU - Joan B. Soriano AU - Samy Suissa Y1 - 2016/02/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/47/2/379.abstract N2 - The recent European Respiratory Society/American Thoracic Society Task Force for COPD Research statement [1] requested new studies that “…evaluate the impact of age on the importance of identifying an airflow limitation (i.e. is it more important to identify asymptomatic airflow limitation in a 30-year-old than an 80-year-old?)”, as well as those studies that compare outcomes among individuals diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) on the basis of the fixed ratio versus lower limit of normal (LLN) thresholds. In this issue of the European Respiratory Journal (ERJ), Luoto et al. [2] report the results of a study that fulfils both goals.Within the current epidemiological transition, expect and find incident COPD cases anytime, anywhere http://ow.ly/UOccW ER -