A systematic review of recent asthma symptom surveys in Iranian children

Chronic Respiratory Disease

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 109-114

  Entezari, A ^a,d   Mehrabi, Y ^a   Varesvazirian, M ^b   Pourpak, Z ^c   Moin, M ^c  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND MEDICAL EDUCATION   (Iran)

Author keywords

Burden of asthma; ISAAC; Meta analysis; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; IRAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ASTHMA; CHILD; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; IRAN; PREVALENCE;

EID: 65149097742     PISSN: 14799723     EISSN: 14799731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1479972309103884     Document Type: Review

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