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Prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and variation in risk factors across four geographically diverse resource-limited settings in Peru

BACKGROUND: It is unclear how geographic and social diversity affects the prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). We sought to characterize the prevalence of COPD and identify risk factors across four settings in Peru with varying degrees of urbanization, altitude, and biomass fu...

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Autores principales: Jaganath, Devan, Miranda, J Jaime, Gilman, Robert H, Wise, Robert A, Diette, Gregory B, Miele, Catherine H, Bernabe-Ortiz, Antonio, Checkley, William
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4389577/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25889777
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12931-015-0198-2