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Causes of death in asthma patients enrolled in the Bahia State Program for the Control of Asthma and Allergic Rhinitis.
Jornal brasileiro de pneumologia : publicacao oficial da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisilogia - 1 Jan 2000
Souza-Machado Adelmir, Souza-Machado Carolina, Silva Daisy Freitas, Ponte Eduardo Vieira, Cruz Alvaro A
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OBJECTIVE: To report demographic and clinical characteristics of patients with asthma who evolved to death, as well as to describe the conditions related to this outcome in a subgroup of patients admitted to the Program for the Control of Asthma and Rhinitis in Bahia (ProAR). METHODS: A descriptive, retrospective, observational study. Data from clinical charts and death certificates of 16 patients of 930 subjects...
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