<b>Does childhood TB or pneumonia impact COPD or asthma in adulthood?</b>

The rest of the figures and tables of the manuscript are listed here:<b><i>Results:</i></b><b>Supplementary Figure S1</b>: Displays the distribution of the patients (COPD and asthma) into groups with or without histories of childhood tuberculosis, pneumonia, or both.<b><i>Demographic parameters</i></b><b>Table 2.</b> Demographic parameters (distribution in males and females, age, body mass index, smoking pack years, and residence) among the COPD groups are displayed. ***Considered highly statistically significant.<b>Table 3.</b><b> </b>Demographic parameters (distribution in males and females, age, body mass index, smoking pack years, and residence) among the asthma groups are displayed<b><i>Symptomatology</i></b><b>Fig 2.</b> Comparison of chronic symptoms (cough, shortness of breath, expectoration with or without purulence, wheezing, with seasonality and frequent exacerbations) in COPD patients with/without childhood TB and/or pneumonia., The Odds ratios (OR) were represented in Forest plots.*Considered statistically significant; **Considered highly statistically significant.<b>Fig </b><b>3</b><b>:</b> Displays comparison of chronic symptoms (cough, shortness of breath, expectoration with or without purulence, wheezing, with seasonality and frequent exacerbations) in asthma patients with/without childhood TB and/or pneumonia. [Asthma: Asthma patients without childhood TB and pneumonia, Asthma with childhood TB: Asthma patients with history of childhood TB, Asthma with childhood PNA: Asthma patients with history of childhood pneumonia, Asthma with childhood TB+PNA: Asthma patients with histories of childhood TB and pneumonia, the Odds ratios (OR) were represented in Forest plots.*Considered statistically significant; **Considered highly statistically significant.<b><i>Other histories including histories of exposure to cigarette smoke</i></b><b>Fig </b><b>4</b><b>:</b> Comparison of smoking histories, childhood exposures (damp environment exposures), histories of being underweight in childhood, and chronic sufferings (recurrent lung infections, hospital admissions, emergency visits, repeated oral and antibiotic usages) in COPD groups. The Odds ratios (OR) were represented in Forest plots,*Considered statistically significant; **Considered highly statistically significant.<b>Fig </b><b>5</b><b>:</b> Displays the comparison of smoking histories, childhood exposures (damp environment exposures), histories of being underweight in childhood, and chronic sufferings (recurrent lung infections, hospital admissions, emergency visits, repeated oral and antibiotic usages) in asthma groups. The Odds ratios (OR) were represented in Forest plots.*Considered statistically significant; **Considered highly statistically significant.<b><i>Radiological chest x-ray findings</i></b><b>Fig </b><b>6:</b> X-ray features [scar, calcification, hyperinflation, emphysematous changes, tubular heart, ground glass opacity (GGO), broncho-vascular (BV) marking, flat diaphragm, horizontal ribs, prominent hila, and hyperlucent area] in X-rays of COPD groups. The Odds ratios (OR) were represented as Forest plots.*Considered statistically significant; **Considered highly statistically significant<b><i>Binomial logistic regression</i></b><b>Supplementary Figure S2:</b> Depicts the variables that were statistically significant in patients with childhood tuberculosis and/or pneumonia compared to those without such histories using binomial logistic regression. [COPD: COPD patients without childhood tuberculosis and pneumonia, COPD with childhood TB: COPD patients with history of childhood tuberculosis, COPD with childhood PNA: COPD patients with history of childhood pneumonia, COPD with childhood TB+PNA: COPD patients with histories of childhood tuberculosis and pneumonia, the Odds ratios (OR) were represented as Forest plots. (*) mark indicates a statistically significant p-value.]