Risk factors for wheeze in the last 12 months in preschool children

Asian Pacific Journal of Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 73-79

  Quah, B S ^a   Mazidah, A R ^a   Simpson, H ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECT REPELLENT;

AIR CONDITIONING; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FURNITURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAYSIA; MALE; NEWBORN DISEASE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; SYMPTOM; WHEEZING;

ASTHMA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; MALAYSIA; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, PERENNIAL; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0033940445     PISSN: 0125877X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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