Asthma prevalence in children living in north Mexico City and a comparison with other Latin American cities and world regions

Allergy and Asthma Proceedings

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 334-340

  Del Rio Navarro, Blanca ^a,b,c   Del Rio Chivardi, Jaime Mariano ^a,b   Berber, Arturo ^a,b   Sienra Monge, Juan Jose Luis ^a,b   Rosas Vargas, Miguel Angel ^a,b   Baeza Bacab, Manuel ^a,c  

^a Hospital Infantil de Mexico Federico Gómez ^*

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE YUCATÁN   (Mexico)

^c HOSPITAL INFANTIL DE MÉXICO FEDERICO GÓMEZ   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MEXICO; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREVALENCE; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA;

ADOLESCENT; ASTHMA; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LATIN AMERICA; MALE; MEXICO; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; URBAN HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 33748119997     PISSN: 10885412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2500/aap.2006.27.2880     Document Type: Article

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