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Keywords: Aged; Bronchiectasis - diagnostic imaging; Bronchiectasis - etiology; Bronchiectasis - mortality; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Cohort analysis; Emphysema; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Hematology; Hospitals; Humans; Incidental Findings; Male; Medical imaging; Medical prognosis; Middle Aged; Mortality; Netherlands - epidemiology; Patients; Prospective Studies; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - diagnostic imaging; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - mortality; Pulmonary Emphysema - diagnostic imaging; Pulmonary Emphysema - etiology; Pulmonary Emphysema - mortality; Radiography, Thoracic - methods; Recurrence; Survival analysis; Survival Rate - trends; Time Factors; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; United States--US; Clinical Epidemiology; COPD Exacerbations; Imaging/CT MRI etc; Bronchiectasis; COPD epidemiology; Emphysema