Contributors
Maria Montes de Oca:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5274-7574
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: Writing – original
draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Ana Menezes: Role: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: ResourcesRole: ValidationRole:
Writing – review & editing
Fernando C. Wehrmeister: Role: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: ValidationRole: Writing
– review & editing
Maria Victorina Lopez Varela: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: ResourcesRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Alejandro Casas: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: ResourcesRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Luis Ugalde: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: ResourcesRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Alejandra Ramirez-Venegas: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: ResourcesRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Laura Mendoza: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: ResourcesRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Ana López: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: ResourcesRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Filip Surmont: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole:
InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Marc Miravitlles: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: ResourcesRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Sanjay Haresh Chotirmall: Role: Editor
Journal
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
15
November
2017
Publication date Collection: 2017
Volume: 12
Issue: 11
Electronic Location Identifier: e0186777
Affiliations
[1
]
Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
[2
]
Post-Graduate Program in Epidemiology, Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil
[3
]
Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
[4
]
Fundación Neumológica Colombiana, Bogotá, Colombia
[5
]
Clínica Americana, San José, Costa Rica
[6
]
Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Ciudad de México, México
[7
]
Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile
[8
]
Hospital Privado Universitario de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina
[9
]
AstraZeneca, Wilmington, Delaware, United States of America
[10
]
Department of Pneumology, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, CIBER de Enfermedades
Respiratorias (CIBERES) Barcelona, Spain
Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, SINGAPORE
Author notes
Competing Interests: MMO: no real or perceived conflicts of interest. AM: Has been paid for her work as
a statistician for the LASSYC study. FCW: no real or perceived conflicts of interest.
MVLV: no real or perceived conflicts of interest. AC: no real or perceived conflicts
of interest. LU: no real or perceived conflicts of interest. AR-V: no real or perceived
conflicts of interest. LM: no real or perceived conflicts of interest. AL: no real
or perceived conflicts of interest. FS: Employee of AstraZeneca. MM: no real or perceived
conflicts of interest. This observational study was funded by AstraZeneca Latin America.
This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and
materials.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-17-15979
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0186777
PMC ID: 5687703
PubMed ID: 29140978
SO-VID: ba8141c2-3f9e-497b-b3b5-ccb33317423b
Copyright © © 2017 Montes de Oca et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided
the original author and source are credited.
History
Date
received
: 22
June
2017
Date
accepted
: 6
October
2017
Page count
Figures: 2,
Tables: 6,
Pages: 14
Funding
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100004325, AstraZeneca;
This observational study was funded by AstraZeneca Latin America. The funders had
no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation
of the manuscript. There are no other relevant declarations relating to employment,
consultancy, patents, products in development or marketed products.
Categories
Subject:
Research Article
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Pulmonology
Subject:
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
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Medicine and Health Sciences
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Health Care
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Patients
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Research and Analysis Methods
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Research Design
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Survey Research
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Questionnaires
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Medicine and Health Sciences
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Public and Occupational Health
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Physical Activity
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People and places
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Population groupings
Subject:
Ethnicities
Subject:
Latin American people
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Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Physiology
Subject:
Physiological Processes
Subject:
Respiration
Subject:
Inhalation
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Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Physiology
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Physiological Processes
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Respiration
Subject:
Inhalation
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Medicine and Health Sciences
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Pulmonology
Subject:
Asthma
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Pulmonology
Subject:
Dyspnea
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