Prevalence, severity and impacts of breathlessness in Indian adults: An exploratory, nationally representative, cross-sectional online survey

• Slavica Kochovska ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: slavica.kochovska@uow.edu.au

  ¶‡ SK and RI are joint first authors on this work.

  Affiliation Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3531-0389

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• Rajam Iyer ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ SK and RI are joint first authors on this work.

  Affiliation P.D. Hinduja Hospital and Medical Research Centre, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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• Sungwon Chang,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation IMPACCT, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Diana Ferreira,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2554-8457

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• Vanessa N. Brunelli,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4494-2254

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• Irina Kinchin,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Health Policy and Management, Discipline of Public Health & Primary Care, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0133-2763

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• Danny J. Eckert,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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• Joseph Clark,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre, Hull University, Hull, United Kingdom

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• Jacob Sandberg,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Faculty of Medicine, Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

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• Magnus Ekström,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Faculty of Medicine, Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

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• David Currow,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1988-1250

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• Sujeet Rajan

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bombay Hospital and Medical Research Centre, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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