The art of medicine: Asthma and the value of contradictions

The Lancet

Volumn 376, Issue 9743, 2010, Pages 764-765

  Whitmarsh, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; ALLERGEN; ANTIASTHMATIC AGENT;

ASTHMA; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HYGIENE; LIFESTYLE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SENSITIZATION; SHORT SURVEY; WHEEZING; ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; AIR POLLUTION; BLOOD; CULTURAL FACTOR; HISTORY; IMMUNOLOGY; NOTE;

AIR POLLUTION; ALLERGENS; ANTI-ASTHMATIC AGENTS; ASTHMA; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; HYGIENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS;

EID: 77956380304     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61367-0     Document Type: Short Survey

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