Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: An ambiguous name and an obstacle in the campaign against smoking;EPOC: Un nombre ambiguo y un inconveniente en la lucha antitabaco

Archivos de Bronconeumologia

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 477-479

  Cabrera Navarro, P ^a,c   Perez Padilla R ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE GRAN CANARIA DR NEGRÍN   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ENFERMEDADES RESPIRATORIAS   (Mexico)

^c NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EDITORIAL; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISTORY; HUMAN; NOMENCLATURE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO;

EID: 9644260834     PISSN: 03002896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13067566     Document Type: Editorial

References (21)

1. Honig EG, Ingram RH Jr. Chronic bronchitis, emphysema, and airways obstruction. En: Isselbacher KI, Braunwald E, Wilson SD, et al, editors. Harrison's principles of internal medicine. 14th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998; p. 1451-9.
2. Pauwels RA, Buist AS, Calverley PM, Jenkins CR, Hurd SS. Global strategy for the diagnosis, management, and prevention of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. NHLBI/WHO Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) Workshop summary. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2001;163:1256-76.
3. Rodríguez Roisin R, Álvarez-Sala JL, Sobradillo V. 2002: un buen año capicúa para la EPOC. Arch Bronconeumol 2002;38:503-5.
4. O'Brien C, Guest PJ, Hill SL, Stockley RA. Physiological and radiological characterisation of patients diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in primary care. Thorax 2000;55:635-42.
5. Diaz Lobato S, Mayorales Alises S. Un solo nombre para una sola enfermedad: EPOC. Arch Bronconeumol 2003;39:376-7.
6. Fletcher CM, Pride NB. Definition of emphysema, chronic bronchitis, asthma, and airflow obstruction: 25 years on from the Ciba Symposium. Thorax 1984;39:81-5.
7. Fletcher C, Peto R, Tinker C, et al. The natural history of chronic bronchitis and emphysema. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976; p. 1-272.
8. Awadh N, Muller NL, Park CS, Abboud RT, Fitzgerald JM. Airway thickness in patients with near fatal asthma and control groups: assessment with high resolution computed tomographic scanning. Thorax 1998;53:248-53.
9. Mochizuky T, Nakajima H, Kokubu F, Kushihashi T, Adachi M. Evaluation of emphysema in patients with reversible airway obstruction using high-resolution CT. Chest 1997;112:1522-6.
10. Siafakas MN, Vermeire P, Pride NB, Paoletti P, Gibson J, Howard P, et al. European Respiratory Society Consensus Statement. Optimal assessment and management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Eur Respir J 1995;8:1398-420.
11. Celli B, Snider GL, Heffner J, Tiep B, Ziment I, Make B, et al. Standards for the diagnosis and care of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Official Statement of the American Thoracic Society. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1995;152:S77-S120.
12. The National Collaborating Centre for Chronic Conditions. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (NICE guideline). Thorax 2004;59(Suppl 1):1-232.
13. Cosio MG, Cosio Piqueras MG. Pathology of emphysema in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Monaldi Arch Chest Dis 2000; 55:124-9.
14. Bergin CJ, Muller NL, Miller RR. CT in the qualitative assessment of emphysema. J Thorac Imaging 1986;1:94-103.
15. Foster WL Jr, Pratt PC, Roggli VL, Godwin JD, Halvorsen RA Jr, Putman CE. Centrilobular emphysema: CT-pathology correlation. Radiology 1986;159:27-32.
16. Klein JS, Gamsu G, Webb WR, Golden JA, Muller NL. High-resolution CT diagnosis of emphysema in symptomatic patients with normal chest radiographs and isolated low diffusing capacity. Radiology 1992;182:817-21.
17. Hendrick DJ. Occupation and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Thorax 1996;51:947-55.
18. Mannino DM, Holguin F, Greeves HM, Savage-Brown A, Stock AL, Jones RL. Urinary cadmium levels predict lower lung function in current and former smokers: data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Thorax 2004;59:194-8.
19. Balmes J, Becklake M, Blanc P, Henneberger P, Kreiss K, Mapp C, et al. Environmental and Occupational Health Assembly, American Thoracic Society. American Thoracic Society Statement: occupational contribution to the burden of airway disease. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2003;167:787-97.
20. Pérez-Padilla R, Regalado U, Vedal S, Pare P, Chapela R, Sansores R. Exposure to biomass smoke and chronic airway disease in Mexican women. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1996;154:701-6.
21. Brandt CJ, Ellegaard H, Joensen M, Kallan FV, Sorknaes AD, Tougaard L. Effect of diagnosis of "smoker's lung". Lancet 1997;349:253.