Domestic risk factors for wheeze in urban and rural Ethiopian children

QJM: An International Journal of Medicine

Volumn 97, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 489-498

  Dagoye, D ^a   Bekele, Z ^a   Woldemichael, K ^a   Nida, H ^a   Yimam, M ^a   Venn, A J ^b   Hall, A ^c   Britton, J R ^b   Lewis, S A ^b   Mckeever, T ^b   Hubbard, Richard ^b  

^a JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KEROSENE; TOBACCO SMOKE;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ANIMAL CARE; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CLINICAL STUDY; COCKROACH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOPHAGOIDES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSE DUST; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SKIN TEST; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; WHEEZING;

EID: 4344565319     PISSN: 14602725     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/hch083     Document Type: Article

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