What are the Clinical Factors that Affect Quality of Life in Adult Asthmatics?

Medical Journal of Malaysia

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 506-515

  Hooi, Lai Ngoh ^a,b  

^a Pantai Medical Centre   (Malaysia)

^b NONE   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Asthma; Outcome; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; EMOTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAYSIA; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAIN; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL STATUS; SYMPTOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASTHMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALAYSIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 1542284224     PISSN: 03005283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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