Open AccessImpact of COVID-19 on (Non-COVID) chronic respiratory disease outcome survey in India (CCROS study)
Author(s) -
Neeraj Gupta,
Raja Dhar,
Rajesh Swarnakar,
R Bedi,
Rakesh Chawla
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
lung india
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.457
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 0974-598X
pISSN - 0970-2113
DOI - 10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_965_20
Subject(s) - medicine , asthma , copd , pulmonologists , incidence (geometry) , respiratory system , covid-19 , intensive care medicine , disease , emergency medicine , infectious disease (medical specialty) , physics , optics
India has high prevalence of chronic respiratory diseases, especially bronchial asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Both of these are also recognized as risk factors for severity and poor outcome of COVID-19 disease. It is assumed that COVID-19 outbreak as well as an effective lockdown might have affected the incidence and outcome of some of these.