Interrelationships between diagnosed asthma, asthma-like symptoms, and abnormal airway behaviour in adolescence: The Odense Schoolchild Study

Thorax

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 503-509

  Siersted, Hans C ^a   Mostgaard, Gert ^a   Hyldebrandt, Niels ^a   Hansen, Henrik S ^a   Boldsen, Jesper ^a   Oxhøj, Henrik ^a  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Asthma; Lung function tests

Indexed keywords

METHACHOLINE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SYMPTOM;

EID: 0030010573     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.51.5.503     Document Type: Article

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