The burden of allergic rhinitis and asthma

Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 11-23

  Ozdoganoglu, Tunis ^a   Songu, Murat ^b  

^a Green Clinic   (Turkey)

^b Izmir Ataturk Research Training Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

asthma; burden; epidemiology; intermittent allergic rhinitis; perennial allergic rhinitis; persistent allergic rhinitis; prevalence; seasonal allergic rhinitis

Indexed keywords

ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ASTHMA; BELGIUM; CANADA; CHINA; DENMARK; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FINLAND; FRANCE; GERMANY; HAY FEVER; HUMAN; HYGIENE; IMMUNIZATION; ITALY; JAPAN; KOREA; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; NETHERLANDS; NORWAY; OBESITY; PERENNIAL RHINITIS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SINGAPORE; SPAIN; STRESS; SWEDEN; SWITZERLAND; TAIWAN; THAILAND; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

ASTHMA; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, PERENNIAL; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, SEASONAL; RISK FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84856618207     PISSN: 17534658     EISSN: 17534666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1753465811431975     Document Type: Review

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