Comorbid disease in asthma: The importance of diagnosis

Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 271-274

  Pinto Pereira, Lexley M ^a   Seemungal, Terence A ^a  

^a THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESOMEPRAZOLE; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR;

ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ASTHMA; ATOPY; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HIATUS HERNIA; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MOOD DISORDER; OBESITY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RHINOSINUSITIS; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; VIRAL BRONCHIOLITIS; VOCAL CORD DISORDER;

EID: 77953235579     PISSN: 17476348     EISSN: 17476356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ers.10.31     Document Type: Editorial

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