Clinical significance in COPD patients followed in a real practice
Open Access
- 28 June 2013
- journal article
- Published by Mattioli1885 in Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine
- Vol. 8 (1), 43
- https://doi.org/10.1186/2049-6958-8-43
Abstract
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an important public health issue in many countries which is estimated to become the fifth cause of disability and the third cause of mortality in the world within 2020.Keywords
This publication has 28 references indexed in Scilit:
- Detection and follow-up of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and risk factors in the Southern Cone of Latin America. the pulmonary risk in South America (PRISA) studyBMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2011
- Prevalence of smoking and incidence of initiation in the Latin American adult population: the PLATINO studyBMC Public Health, 2009
- Perfil dos fumantes que procuram um centro de cessação de tabagismoJornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia, 2008
- International variation in the prevalence of COPD (The BOLD Study): a population-based prevalence studyThe Lancet, 2007
- Population-based evidence of a strong decline in the prevalence of smokers in Brazil (1989-2003)Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2007
- Global burden of COPD: systematic review and meta-analysisEuropean Respiratory Journal, 2006
- Epidemiology and costs of chronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseEuropean Respiratory Journal, 2006
- Standardisation of spirometryEuropean Respiratory Journal, 2005
- COPD in Japan: the Nippon COPD Epidemiology studyRespirology, 2004
- Usefulness of the Medical Research Council (MRC) dyspnoea scale as a measure of disability in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseThorax, 1999