Incidence, prevalence, and national burden of interstitial lung diseases in India: Estimates from two studies of 3089 subjects

Sahajal Dhooria; Inderpaul Singh Sehgal; Ritesh Agarwal; Valliappan Muthu; Kuruswamy Thurai Prasad; Soundappan Kathirvel; Mandeep Garg; Amanjit Bal; Ashutosh Nath Aggarwal; Digambar Behera

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0271665

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Incidence, prevalence, and national burden of interstitial lung diseases in India: Estimates from two studies of 3089 subjects

Sahajal Dhooria ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: sahajal@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3199-9163

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Inderpaul Singh Sehgal,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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Ritesh Agarwal,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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Valliappan Muthu,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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Kuruswamy Thurai Prasad,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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Soundappan Kathirvel,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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Mandeep Garg,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Radiodiagnosis and Imaging, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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Amanjit Bal,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Histopathology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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Ashutosh Nath Aggarwal,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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Digambar Behera

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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Incidence, prevalence, and national burden of interstitial lung diseases in India: Estimates from two studies of 3089 subjects

Sahajal Dhooria,
Inderpaul Singh Sehgal,
Ritesh Agarwal,
Valliappan Muthu,
Kuruswamy Thurai Prasad,
Soundappan Kathirvel,
Mandeep Garg,
Amanjit Bal,
Ashutosh Nath Aggarwal,
Digambar Behera

Published: July 21, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271665

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