Temporal changes in the prevalence of childhood asthma and allergies in urban and rural areas of Cyprus: Results from two cross sectional studies

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kolokotroni, Ourania ^a   Middleton, Nicos ^a   Nicolaou, Nicolas ^b   Pipis, Spyros ^c   Priftis, Kostas N ^d   Milton, Donald K ^e,f   Yiallouros, Panayiotis K ^a  

^a CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c Areteion Hospital   (Cyprus)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CYPRUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

ASTHMA; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CYPRUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 81055136559     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-858     Document Type: Article

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