Rate and place of death from asthma among different ethnic groups in Israel: National trends 1980 to 1997

Chest

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1222-1227

  Picard, Elie ^a   Barmeir, Maskit ^a   Schwartz, Shepard ^a   Villa, Yael ^b   Goldberg, Shmuel ^a   Virgilis, Dov ^a   Kerem, Eitan ^a  

^a SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Asthma; Hospital; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARAB; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GEOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; ISRAEL; JEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0036430376     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.122.4.1222     Document Type: Article

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