Allergic Rhinitis: A neglected disease - A community based assessment among adults in Delhi

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 169-175

  Sinha, B ^a   Vibha, ^a   Singla, R ^b   Chowdhury, R ^c  

^a LADY HARDINGE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b LRS Institute of TB and Respiratory Diseases   (India)

^c SOCIETY FOR APPLIED STUDIES   (India)

Author keywords

Allergic Rhinitis; prevalence; risk factors; treatment seeking behaviour

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIR CONDITIONING; ALLERGIC DISEASE; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CROWDING (AREA); ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL PRURITUS; NEGLECTED DISEASE; NOSE OBSTRUCTION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RHINORRHEA; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; SPIROMETRY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; DUST; ETHNOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PATIENT ATTITUDE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

DUST;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASTHMA; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DUST; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEGLECTED DISEASES; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84935418042     PISSN: 00223859     EISSN: 09722823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0022-3859.159418     Document Type: Article

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