Increasing prevalence of asthma, respiratory symptoms, and allergic diseases: Four repeated surveys from 1993-2014

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 109, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 982-990

  Brozek, Grzegorz ^a   Lawson, Joshua ^b   Szumilas, Dawid ^a   Zejda, Jan ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Allergic diseases; Asthma; Children; Epidemiology; Respiratory symptoms; Trend

Indexed keywords

ALLERGIC CONJUNCTIVITIS; ALLERGIC DISEASE; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ASTHMA; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CHILD; CHRONIC COUGH; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; POLAND; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX RATIO; SKIN ALLERGY; WHEEZING; ADOLESCENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FOLLOW UP; FORECASTING; HEALTH SURVEY; HYPERSENSITIVITY; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ASTHMA; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORECASTING; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MALE; POLAND; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84938416191     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: 15323064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2015.05.010     Document Type: Article

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