Childhood asthma under the north face of Mount Everest

Journal of Asthma

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 393-398

  Yangzong, ^a,b   Nafstad, P ^b,c   Madsen, C ^b,c   Bjertness, E ^b  

^a TIBET UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Asthma; Children; Environmental exposure; Epidemiology; Tibet

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CHILD; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WHEEZING;

ADOLESCENT; ALTITUDE; ASTHMA; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, PERENNIAL; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIBET;

EID: 33745726731     PISSN: 02770903     EISSN: 15324303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02770900600710326     Document Type: Article

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