What is it about?
COPD and chronic airflow obstruction (CAO) have been related with poverty and low socioeconomic status (LSES) but it is not clear which are the possible causes. This article comments a study from the BOLD Group showing an association between poverty and higher prevalence of CAO and briefly analyzes the possible reasons why poverty and LSES could be related with COPD and CAO.
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Why is it important?
The article is relevant because of, in addition to the adulthood exposures related with poverty and LSES (Household indoor pollution/biomass exposure), many circunstances occured in the prenatal and early life could explained a significant proportion of cases of COPD and CAO and some of them could be also related with poverty and LSES.
Perspectives
The article emphasizes the need to investigate the role of early exposures (prenatal, neonatal and childhood) and the individual susceptibility to the development of COPD and CAO and poses the weakness of the definition of COPD
Dr. Carlos A. Torres-Duque
Fundacion Neumologica Colombiana
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This page is a summary of: Poverty cannot be inhaled and it is not a genetic condition. How can it be associated with chronic airflow obstruction?, European Respiratory Journal, June 2017, European Respiratory Society (ERS),
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00823-2017.
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