Gender and age affect the levels of exhaled nitric oxide in healthy children

Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1174-1178

  Zhang, Han ^a   Shu, Linhua ^a   Cai, Xuxu ^a   Wang, Zhijia ^a   Jiao, Xuyong ^a   Liu, Fen ^a   Hou, Ping ^a   Wang, Li ^a   Shan, Lishen ^a   Chen, Ning ^a   Shang, Yunxiao ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Age; Exhaled nitric oxide; Gender; Healthy children

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE;

AGE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BODY MASS; CHILD; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXPIRED AIR; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUNG FUNCTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; SPIROMETRY;

EID: 84874603795     PISSN: 17920981     EISSN: 17921015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/etm.2013.922     Document Type: Article

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