Influence of Asian desert dust on lower respiratory tract symptoms in patients with asthma over 4 years

Yonago Acta Medica

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 41-48

  Watanabe, Masanari ^a   Kurai, Jun ^a   Igishi, Tadashi ^a   Yamasaki, Akira ^a   Burioka, Naoto ^a   Takeuchi, Hiromi ^a   Sako, Takanori ^b   Touge, Hirokazu ^a   Nakamoto, Masaki ^a   Hasegawa, Yasuyuki ^a   Chikumi, Hiroki ^a   Matsumoto, Shingo ^a   Yamasaki, Chie ^a   Minato, Sayaka ^c   Ueda, Yutaka ^c   Horasaki, Kazunori ^c   Watanabe, Tetsushi ^d   Shimizu, Eiji ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Obase Hospital   (Japan)

^c Tottori Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Science   (Japan)

^d KYOTO PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Asian dust storm; Asthma; Lower respiratory tract symptom; Telephone survey

Indexed keywords

METAL; NITROGEN DIOXIDE;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DESERT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DUST EXPOSURE; DYSPNEA; EYE PAIN; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; POLLEN; PRURITUS; SKIN DISEASE; SNEEZING; SPUTUM; TEAR FLOW; TELECOMMUNICATION; WHEEZING;

EID: 84864378336     PISSN: 05135710     EISSN: 13468049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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