Asthma in American Indian adults: The strong heart study

Chest

Volumn 131, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1323-1330

  Dixon, Anne E ^a   Yeh, Fawn ^b   Welty, Thomas K ^c   Rhoades, Everett R ^b   Lee, Elisa T ^b   Howard, Barbara V ^d   Enright, Paul L ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c MISSOURI BREAKS INDUSTRIES RESEARCH INC   (United States)

^d MEDSTAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

American Indian; Arizona; Asthma; Epidemiology; Native American; North Dakota; Oklahoma; South Dakota; Spirometry

Indexed keywords

BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; PREDNISONE; SALBUTAMOL; THEOPHYLLINE;

ADULT; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN TEST; SPIROMETRY;

EID: 34248585884     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.06-1968     Document Type: Article

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