Effects of passive smoking and breastfeeding on childhood bronchial asthma

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 606-609

  Wafula, E M ^c   Limbe, M S ^a   Onyango, F E ^b   Nduati, R ^c  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^b WHO   (Ethiopia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; INFANT; MALE; ONSET AGE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS;

AGE OF ONSET; ASTHMA; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 0033219435     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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