Prevalence and prediction of allergic rhinitis using questionnaire and nasal smear examination in schoolchildren

Acta Oto-Laryngologica, Supplement

Volumn , Issue 540, 1999, Pages 58-63

  Okano, Mitsuhiro ^a   Nishizaki, Kazunori ^a   Nakada, Michihiro ^a   Kawarai, Yasuyuki ^a   Goto, Shoichi ^b   Satoskar, Abhay R ^c   Satoskar, Anjali A ^d   Takehisa, Tohru ^b   Masuda, Yu ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b Tsuyama Central Hospital   (Japan)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Nasal eosinophilia; Questionnaire; Rhinitis; Schoolchildren

Indexed keywords

ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; ATOPY; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; NOSE SMEAR; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FOLLOW UP; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; NOSE MUCOSA; PERENNIAL RHINITIS; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SECRETION; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; NASAL MUCOSA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, PERENNIAL; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032588125     PISSN: 03655237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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