Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in non-smoking Sri Lankan adults

Gunasekera, Kirthi; Amarasiri, D Lakmali; Fernando, Amitha; Wickramasinghe, Rajitha

doi:10.1183/13993003.congress-2019.pa2838

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...

Discussion1

Citation Types

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Year Published

2021

Publication Types

Select...

Article1

Relationship

Self Cite0

Independent1

Authors

Journals

Cited by 1 publication

(1 citation statement)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Ghaffar et al found that in South Asian countries, including Nepal, poorer people burn wood as fuel in their homes, especially in winter, which may likely increase the indoor air pollution and contribute to the burden of COPD [ 12 ]. These results are in line with the results published from Nepal and Sri Lanka that suggest a significant burden of COPD in the non-smoker population [ 2 , 9 , 16 ].…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

Understanding Practice Patterns of COPD: A Survey of Physicians in Nepal, Sri Lanka and Malaysia

et al. 2021

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Introduction: There is much recent data from Nepal, Sri Lanka and Malaysia that can help us understand the practice patterns of physicians regarding the diagnosis and management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in these countries. We conducted this survey to understand the practice patterns of physicians related to the diagnosis and management of COPD in these three countries. Methods: This questionnaire-based, observational, multicentre, cross-sectional survey was carried out with 438 randomly selected physicians consulting COPD patients. Results: In the survey, 73.29% of the physicians consulted at least five COPD patients daily (all patients [ 40 years of age). 31.14% of the COPD patients visiting their doctors were

show abstract