TY - JOUR T1 - Prevalence of COPD in Algerian military JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J VL - 40 IS - Suppl 56 SP - P978 AU - Kherbi Salah Y1 - 2012/09/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/40/Suppl_56/P978.abstract N2 - The Survey is about one of the determinants of the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), tobacco and the military environment. The objective is to measure the prevalence of this pathology and to make a first assessment of it in order to elaborate an efficient anti-tobacco policy and to associate a better handling of this pathology within our institutions.It is about a transversal survey that uses the questionnaire and the spirometry on a population of soldiers and civilian staff working for the army aged of 40 years and more, current smokers or former smokers having accumulated 10 P/Y and more, belonging to 10 randomly chosen military camps belonging to the fifth military region. So 720 men have been included in the investigation and have been questioned during the period of November 01/2008 to October 31/2009.The prevalence of the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is of 5.35 % for the whole population, of 6.37 % for current smokers and 3.75 % among the former smokers, the prevalence of the different stages of severity is of 2.67 % for the two stages I and II. The active tobacco addiction or weaned was the only factor of risk found with a percentage of 43.15 % and 36.06 % respectively, associated with the passive tobacco addiction.The chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in the military institution is a real problem that challenges medical community and decision–makers on the emergency of the elaboration of a health policy based on the prevention through strict measures of struggle against the tobacco addiction and the early detection of patients in a precocious stage by the practice of the minimal advice and the popularization of the breath measure. ER -