Allergic diseases and respiratory symptoms in urban and rural children in Grodno Region (Belarus)

Pediatric Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 339-346

  Shpakou, Andrei ^a   Brozek, Grzegorz ^b   Stryzhak, Andrei ^c   Neviartovich, Tatsiana ^a   Zejda, Jan ^b  

^a YANKA KUPALA STATE UNIVERSITY OF GRODNO   (Belarus)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^c Department of Health of Grodno Oblast Executive Committee ^*  (Belarus)

Author keywords

Allergies; Asthma; Children; Eczema; Epidemiology; Respiratory symptoms; Rhinitis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ALLERGIC DISEASE; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BELARUS; BRONCHITIS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPNEA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILY FUNCTIONING; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOME ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOSE CONGESTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RASH; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SNEEZING; URBAN POPULATION; WHEEZING;

ADOLESCENT; ASTHMA; BRONCHITIS, CHRONIC; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPUBLIC OF BELARUS; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; RHINITIS; RURAL HEALTH; SNEEZING; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 84861334234     PISSN: 09056157     EISSN: 13993038     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3038.2011.01263.x     Document Type: Article

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