Peak expiratory flow rate of rural school children from Wardha district, Maharashtra in India

World Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 211-214

  Taksande, Amar ^a   Jain, Manish ^a   Vilhekar, Krishna ^a   Chaturvedi, Pushpa ^a  

^a MAHATMA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Asthma; Peak expiratory flow rate; Respiratory function tests

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SURFACE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FLOWMETER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIA; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NORMAL VALUE; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PREDICTION; RELIABILITY; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; STANDING;

ASTHMA; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW RATE; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 55649119780     PISSN: 17088569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12519-008-0039-1     Document Type: Article

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