Tobacco smoking and pulmonary tuberculosis

Thorax

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 964-966

  Kolappan, C ^a   Gopi, P G ^a  

^a INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOSE RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING HABIT;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 0036847523     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thorax.57.11.964     Document Type: Article

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