Elevated asthma morbidity in Puerto Rican children: A review of possible risk and prognostic factors

Western Journal of Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 75-84

  Lara, Marielena ^a,b   Morgenstern, Hal ^c   Duan, Naihua ^b   Brook, Robert H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNIC GROUP; GENETICS; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; INFANT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PUERTO RICO; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

ASTHMA; CHILD; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PUERTO RICO; RESEARCH; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032915948     PISSN: 00930415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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