Tracking hotbeds of COPD in Latin American (original) (raw)

In 2002, pneumologist María Victorina López Varela at the University of the Republic and Hospital Maciel in Montevideo, Uruguay, joined forces with researchers in five other Latin American countries to launch the first large-scale assessment of the prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in the region-the PLATINO study. What was the picture of COPD in Latin America in 2002? There was no data on COPD prevalence in the region. Scientists, including myself, had worked on the disease for many years in universities, yet we didn't know the reality of COPD on our continent. That's why we launched the PLATINO study.

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