Prevalence of allergic disorders among primary school-aged children in Madinah, Saudi Arabia: Two-stage cross-sectional survey

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Nahhas, Mahmoud ^a   Bhopal, Raj ^b   Anandan, Chantelle ^a   Elton, Rob ^a   Sheikh, Aziz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY SCHOOL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAUDI ARABIA; SCHOOL CHILD; SYMPTOM; HYPERSENSITIVITY;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MALE; PREVALENCE; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 84861209567     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036848     Document Type: Article

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