Prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in rural women of Tamilnadu: implications for refining disease burden assessments attributable to household biomass combustion

BACKGROUND: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the 13th leading cause of burden of disease worldwide and is expected to become 5th by 2020. Biomass fuel combustion significantly contributes to COPD, although smoking is recognized as the most important risk factor. Rural women in develop...

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Autores principales: Johnson, Priscilla, Balakrishnan, Kalpana, Ramaswamy, Padmavathi, Ghosh, Santu, Sadhasivam, Muthukumar, Abirami, Omprakash, Sathiasekaran, Bernard W. C., Smith, Kirk R., Thanasekaraan, Vijayalakshmi, Subhashini, Arcot S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: CoAction Publishing 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3208970/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22065945
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v4i0.7226

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3208970/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22065945
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v4i0.7226

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