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

• Published in: Global health action Vol. 4; no. 1; pp. 7226 - 8
• Main Authors: Johnson, Priscilla, Balakrishnan, Kalpana, Ramaswamy, Padmavathi, Ghosh, Santu, Sadhasivam, Muthukumar, Abirami, Omprakash, Sathiasekaran, Bernard W. C., Smith, Kirk R., Thanasekaraan, Vijayalakshmi, Subhashini, Arcot S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Taylor & Francis 01.01.2011; Taylor & Francis Ltd; CoAction Publishing; Taylor & Francis Group
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Air Pollution, Indoor - adverse effects; Biomass energy; biomass fuel users; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Clinical assessment; Cooking; Cost of Illness; Cross-Sectional Studies; Developing countries; disease burden; Epidemiology; Female; Fossil Fuels - toxicity; Fuels; Health risk assessment; Humans; India - epidemiology; Indoor air pollution; LDCs; Logistic Models; Middle Aged; Original; Prevalence; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - epidemiology; Regression analysis; Risk Factors; Rural communities; Rural Health; rural women; Smoke - adverse effects; Smoking; Spirometry; Statistical analysis; Villages; Women; Women's Health; India; rural women; prevalence; disease burden; biomass fuel users; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Chronic obstructive 1 1 This paper was orally presented in the Annual conference International Society of Environmental Epidemiology held in Pasadena in 2008. pulmonary disease (COPD) is the 13th leading cause of burden of disease worldwide and is expected to become 5th by 2020. Biomass fuel combust...