Asthma prevalence in Hispanic and Asian American ethnic subgroups: Results from the California Healthy Kids Survey

Pediatrics

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Davis, Adam M ^a   Kreutzer, Richard ^b   Lipsett, Michael ^b   King, Galatea ^b   Shaikh, Nazerah ^b  

^a American Lung Association of California   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian; Asthma; Ethnicity; Hispanic; Latino; Pacific Islander; Prevalence; Race

Indexed keywords

ASIAN AMERICAN; ASTHMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; UNITED STATES; ABORIGINE; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CAMBODIA; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHILD; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CUBA; ETHNOLOGY; INDIA; JAPAN; KOREA; LAOS; MEXICO; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PHILIPPINES; PUERTO RICO; RISK; SOUTH AMERICA; STATISTICS; VIET NAM;

ADOLESCENT; ASIAN AMERICANS; ASTHMA; CALIFORNIA; CAMBODIA; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHILD; CHINA; CUBA; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INDIA; JAPAN; KOREA; LAOS; MALE; MEXICO; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PHILIPPINES; PREVALENCE; PUERTO RICO; RISK; SOUTH AMERICA; VIETNAM;

EID: 33748422707     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2005-2687     Document Type: Review

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