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

• Main Authors: Priscilla Johnson (Author), Kalpana Balakrishnan (Author), Padmavathi Ramaswamy (Author), Santu Ghosh (Author), Muthukumar Sadhasivam (Author), Omprakash Abirami (Author), Bernard W. C. Sathiasekaran (Author), Kirk R. Smith (Author), Vijayalakshmi Thanasekaraan (Author), Arcot S. Subhashini (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2011-11-01T00:00:00Z.
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Chronic obstructive1 1This 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 combustio...