Cystic Fibrosis Diagnosed Using Indigenously Wrapped Sweating Technique: First Large-Scale Study Reporting Socio-Demographic, Clinical, and Laboratory Features among the Children in Bangladesh A Lower Middle Income Country

• Main Authors: ARM Luthful Kabir MBBS, FCPS (Author), Sudipta Roy MBBS, FCPS (Author), Rahat Bin Habib MBBS, MD (Author), Kazi Selim Anwar MD, MPhil (Author), Md. Abid Hossain Mollah MBBS, FCPS, Dip. in Med Edu, FRCP (Author), Ruhul Amin MBBS, FCPS (Author), Al Amin Mridha MBBS, MD, FCPS, FRCP (Author), Jasim Uddin Majumder MBBS, MD, FCPS (Author), Md. Delwar Hossain MBBS, FCPS (Author), Nazmul Haque MPhil (Author), Shakil Ahmed MBBS, MD, FCPS (Author), Mohammod Jobayer Chisti MBBS, MMed, PhD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2020-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Due to lack of robust data on childhood cystic fibrosis (CF) in Bangladesh we sought to evaluate their clinico-epidemiology. A cross-sectional observation was conducted adopting CF-foundation consensus-panel-diagnostic criteria in 3 tertiary-care-hospitals in Bangladesh from 2000 to 2017. Clinically...