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Wheeze and asthma prevalence and related health-service use in white and south Asian pre-schoolchildren in the United Kingdom.
Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology - 1 Dec 2007
Kuehni C E, Strippoli M-P F, Low N, Brooke A M, Silverman M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Epidemiological data for south Asian children in the United Kingdom are contradictory, showing a lower prevalence of wheeze, but a higher rate of medical consultations and admissions for asthma compared with white children. These studies have not distinguished different asthma phenotypes or controlled for varying environmental exposures. OBJECTIVE: To compare the prevalence of wheeze and related...
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