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Worldwide burden of COPD in high- and low-income countries. Part II. Burden of chronic obstructive lung disease in Latin America: the PLATINO study.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Menezes, Ana Maria Baptista Perez-Padilla, Rogélio Hallal, Pedro C. Jardim, José Roberto Muiño, A. López, María Victorina Valdivia, Guelki Pertuzé, Julio Oca, M. Montes De Tálamo, Carlos |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Abstract | SETTING Five Latin American cities: São Paulo, Brazil; Mexico City, Mexico; Montevideo, Uruguay; Santiago, Chile; Caracas, Venezuela. OBJECTIVE To describe the burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in Latin America. DESIGN This is a multicentre study. Post-bronchodilator spirometry was used and the main outcome measure was FEV(1)/FVC < 0.7 (fixed ratio criterion). Global Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) stages were also analysed. RESULTS The combined population aged > or =40 years in the five countries included in the study was approximately 85.3 million. Of these, it was estimated that 12.2 million have airflow obstruction, which corresponds to our prevalence estimate of 14.3%. The proportion of subjects in Stages II-IV of the GOLD classification was 5.6%. Risk factors presenting the highest aetiological fractions for COPD were age, current smoking, indoor exposure to coal and exposure to dust in the workplace. Smoking, the modifiable factor with the strongest aetiological fraction for COPD, affects 29.2% of adults aged > or =40 years in these cities, corresponding to approximately 25 million smokers in this age group. CONCLUSION Prevention of smoking and exposure to pollutants, such as coal and dust, are the interventions most likely to succeed against COPD in Latin America. The information obtained by a collaborative study has been vast and encouraging for other similar studies. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| PubMed reference number | 18544192 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 12 |
| Issue Number | 7 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.platino-alat.org/docs/paper_menezes_2008.pdf?origin=publication_detail |
| Journal | The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
