Time trends and seasonal variation in acute childhood asthma in tropical Singapore

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 345-350

  Chew, F T ^a   Goh, D Y T ^a   Ooi, B C ^b   Lee, B W ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SINGAPORE; TIME; TROPIC CLIMATE;

EID: 0031881332     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0954-6111(98)90119-6     Document Type: Article

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