Asthma insights and reality in the United Arab Emirates

Annals of Thoracic Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 217-221

  Mahboub, Bassam Hassan Saleh Hassan ^a   Santhakumar, Sonia ^a   Soriano, Joan B ^b   Pawankar, Ruby ^c  

^a RASHID HOSPITAL   (United Arab Emirates)

^b CIMERA   (Spain)

^c NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asthma; burden; Gulf and near east; population; UAE; under treatment

Indexed keywords

BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; SHORT ACTING DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; DISEASE CONTROL; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

EID: 77957011827     PISSN: 18171737     EISSN: 19983557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1817-1737.69109     Document Type: Article

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