A research proposal with the title: KOL-Text – Survey of prevelance of comorbidity, gender differences and treatment of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) using a large electronic patient record database, was submitted to Vetenskapsrådet in the area of Medicine. The proposal was jointly written with the Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM) at Karolinska Institutet. The project proposal encompasses three years and 6.4 MSEK.