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Five-year follow-up of participants diagnosed with chronic airflow obstruction ...
Allwood, Brian; Gillespie, R; Bateman, Mary; Olckers, Helena; Barata, Luis Taborda; Calligaro, Gregory L; van Zyl-Smit, Richard; Cooper, Christopher BBackground. A community-based prevalence survey performed in two suburbs in Cape Town, South Africa (SA), in 2005, using the international Burden of Obstructive Lung Disease (BOLD) method, confirmed a prevalence of chronic airflow obstruction (CAO) in 23.1% of adults aged >40 years. Objectives. To study the clinical course and prognosis over 5 years of patients with CAO identified in the 2005 survey. Methods. P...
Obstructive pulmonary disease in patients with previous tuberculosis: Pathophys...
Allwood, Brian W; Gillespie, Rencia; Galperin-Aizenberg, Maya; Bateman, Mary; Olckers, Helena; Barata, Luis Taborda; Calligaro, Gregory LBackground. An association between chronic airflow limitation (CAL) and a history of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) has been confirmed in epidemiological studies, but the mechanisms responsible for this association are unclear. It is debated whether CAL in this context should be viewed as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or a separate phenotype. Objective. To compare lung physiology and high-resolutio...