Respiratory complaints in Chinese: Cultural and diagnostic specificities

Chest

Volumn 127, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1942-1951

  Han, Jiangna ^a   Zhu, Yuanjue ^a   Li, Shunwei ^a   Chen, Xiansheng ^a   Put, Claudia ^b   Van De Woestijne, Karel P ^b   Van Den Bergh, Omer ^c  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Chinese; Dyspnea; Factor analysis; Respiratory complaints

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BREATHING; BREATHING DISORDER; CHINESE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING; SKIN TINGLING; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WHEEZING; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; LANGUAGE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DYSPNEA; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PREGNANCY; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 21844470484     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.127.6.1942     Document Type: Article

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