Chronic respiratory symptoms in Croatian Adriatic Island metapopulations

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 627-634

  Žuškin, Eugenija ^a   Narančić, Nina Smolej ^b   Škarić Jurić, Tatjana ^b   Barbalić, Maja ^b   Rudan, Pavao ^b   Kujundžić Tiljak, Mirjana ^a   Pucarin Cvetković, Jasna ^a   Schachter, E Neil ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Croatia)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ALLERGY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; CROATIA; DYSPNEA; EUROPEAN UNION; FEMALE; GENETIC TRAIT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METAPOPULATION; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; ASTHMA; CHRONIC DISEASE; COUGH; CROATIA; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY HYPERSENSITIVITY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES;

EID: 33747871106     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: 13328166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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