An approach to preschool wheezing: To label as asthma?

World Allergy Organization Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 253-257

  Van Bever, Hugo P ^a   Han, Eugene ^a   Shek, Lynette ^a   Chng, Seo Yi ^a   Goh, Daniel ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BUDESONIDE; CORTICOSTEROID; FLUTICASONE; IPRATROPIUM BROMIDE; LONG ACTING BETA AGONIST; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; MONTELUKAST; PREDNISOLONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ASTHMA; ATOPY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; WHEEZING;

EID: 78649999652     PISSN: 19394551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WOX.0b013e3181fc7fa1     Document Type: Review

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