Dyspnoea as a predictor of cause-specific heart/lung disease mortality in Bangladesh: a prospective cohort study

• Published in: Journal of epidemiology and community health (1979) Vol. 70; no. 7; pp. 689 - 695
• Main Authors: Pesola, Gene R, Argos, Maria, Chinchilli, Vernon M, Chen, Yu, Parvez, Faruque, Islam, Tariqul, Ahmed, Alauddin, Hasan, Rabiul, Rakibuz-Zaman, Muhammad, Ahsan, Habibul
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BMJ Publishing Group Ltd 01.07.2016; BMJ Publishing Group LTD
• Subjects: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Arsenic; Bangladesh - epidemiology; Cardiovascular disease; Cardiovascular diseases; Causes of death; Chronic illnesses; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Data collection; Developing countries; Dyspnea; Epidemiology; Female; Health risk assessment; Heart diseases; Heart Diseases - mortality; Heart failure; Humans; Industrialized nations; Kaplan-Meier Estimate; Laboratories; LDCs; Lung diseases; Lung Diseases - mortality; Lungs; Male; Middle Aged; Mortality; Mortality rates; Mycobacterium; Other topics; Prospective Studies; Public health; Pulmonary heart disease; Pulmonary tuberculosis; Questionnaires; Stroke; Studies; Tobacco smoking; Tuberculosis; Bangladesh; ISW, Bangladesh; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; Cardiovascular disease; Epidemiology of chronic diseases; AVOIDABLE DEATHS; Clinical epidemiology

BackgroundThe spectrum of mortality outcomes by cause in populations with/without dyspnoea has not been determined. The study aimed to evaluate whether dyspnoea, a symptom, predicts cause-specific mortality differences between groups. The hypothesis was that diseases that result in chronic dyspnoea,...