Native and foreign born as predictors of pediatric asthma in an Asian immigrant population: A cross sectional survey

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Brugge, Doug ^a   Lee, Angela C ^b   Woodin, Mark ^c   Rioux, Christine ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Tufts University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ASTHMA; BIRTHPLACE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; RISK; UNITED STATES; ASIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; GENETICS; MIGRATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ASIA; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ASTHMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34249073074     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-6-13     Document Type: Article

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