Prevalence of asthma in urban and rural children in Tamil Nadu

National Medical Journal of India

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 260-263

  Chakravarthy, Shibi ^a   Singh, Raj B ^b   Swaminathan, Soumya ^a   Venkatesan, P ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN TUBERCULOSIS   (India)

^b APOLLO HOSPITALS   (India)

^c Department of Respiratory ^*  (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BREATHING DISORDER; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL AREA; STUDENT; SYMPTOM; URBAN AREA; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; WHEEZING;

ASTHMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0036762304     PISSN: 0970258X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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