@article{Pradeep Nirala_Rajeev Tandon_Mohit Bhatia_2021, title={A Study on Biomass Exposure-Associated Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease among the patients Visited at a Tertiary Care Hospital}, volume={4}, url={https://ijhcr.com/index.php/ijhcr/article/view/4556}, abstractNote={<p>Introduction: The leading environmental cause of death worldwide is household air pollution (HAP), and a major contributor to HAP is use of<br>biomass and coal as fuels for cooking and heating. In recent years, in rural areas, the impacts and role of biomass fuels in the pathogenesis of<br>COPD have received increasing attention. Biomass fuel causes a high degree of morbidity and mortality in humans. Materials and method: It<br>was a prospective study conducted in Department of TB & Chest Diseases of a tertiary care hospital over a period of one year. 100 consecutive<br>patients of stable COPD attending chest OPD were enrolled as cases. An equal number of healthy subjects with similar age and gender<br>distribution were taken as controls. Informed consent was taken from all subjects. Routine spirometry was performed as per the recent ATS<br>guidelines using SPIROLAB 6000 PC-based Spirometer. Postbronchodilator forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1), forced vital capacity<br>(FVC), and FEV1/FVC values were recorded based on which patients were categorized into four stages of airflow limitation as per recent GOLD<br>guidelines. Results: A total of 100 patients were enrolled for the study. 60 were females and 40 were males. The reason being women are more<br>involved in domestic tasks especially cooking and prolonged working hours in kitchen causing them more exposure to biomass smoke.<br>Conclusion: Our study concludes biomass fuel exposure contributes substantially to the burden of disease in India. Many studies in this vein<br>have discovered significant associations with diseases like COPD and ALRI.</p>}, number={14}, journal={International Journal of Health and Clinical Research}, author={Pradeep Nirala and Rajeev Tandon and Mohit Bhatia}, year={2021}, month={Aug.}, pages={395–397} }