Estimating prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the Southern Cone of Latin America: How different spirometric criteria may affect disease burden and health policies

BMC Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Sobrino, Edgardo ^a   Irazola, Vilma E ^a   Gutierrez, Laura ^a   Chen, Chung Shiuan ^b   Lanas, Fernando ^c   Calandrelli, Matías ^d   Ponzo, Jacqueline ^e   Mores, Nora ^f   Serón, Pamela ^c   Lee, Allison ^g   He, Jiang ^b   Rubinstein, Adolfo L ^h  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS AND HEALTH POLICY   (Argentina)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA FRONTERA   (Chile)

^d Sanatorio San Carlos ^*  (Argentina)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^f Municipalidad de Marcos Paz ^*  (Argentina)

^g MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h National Ministry of Health ^*  (Argentina)

Author keywords

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Cross sectional study; Fixed ratio; Lower limit normal; Prevalence; Risk factors; South America

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BODY MASS; CHILE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE BURDEN; DISEASE CONTROL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SPIROMETRY; STRATIFIED SAMPLE; TUBERCULOSIS; URUGUAY; AGE; COST OF ILLNESS; HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PROCEDURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ARGENTINA; CHILE; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; SPIROMETRY;

EID: 85037673623     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12890-017-0537-9     Document Type: Article

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