COPD in workers with occupational risk factors treated in a health institution in Yumbo, Colombia.

Abstract

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a syndrome whose significance was evidenced by WHO, who reported 3 million deaths in 2012; related to that condition. 

Objective: Determine the factors related to this pathology powder: stone, coal, wood, textiles, cereals, animal waste and paper and by 2015 the GOLD (Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease) updated diagnostic and therapeutic strategy for this disease.

Methodology: Cross-sectional descriptive study in patients attending an IPS in Yumbo, Colombia; years 2011 to 2013. Universe of 117 workers with COPD, in whom medical records were reviewed and surveyed 75 of them, using the questionnaire of respiratory symptoms Ferris.

Results: 60% worked in dusty environments in the workplace, with exposure to risk factors ILO stone quarry 32.4%, coal 31.6%, cereals 29.7%, textiles 21.6% and 18.4% paper dust, with an average exposure time 20.6 years.

Conclusions: From the results the presence of risk factors referenced by the ILO in the study subjects was confirmed, and based on the creation of a construct linked COPD sufficient exposure time for the development of COPD (10 years) and no smoking; He became an estimate of the likely prevalence of this disease in their occupational origin to study population; which it resulted in 15% and extrapolated to the population of Yumbo of 1.3%, which was considered an important finding.