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Asthma in Latin America: the dawn of a new epidemic.

Current opinion in allergy and clinical immunology - 1 Oct 2008

Pitrez Paulo M, Stein Renato T

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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Asthma is a heterogeneous disease with high morbidity worldwide. Unlike the low prevalence of asthma and allergy found in many developing countries, especially in rural settings, its prevalence in Latin America is high. In these sites, nonatopic asthma seems to be the most common phenotype observed among school-age children. Therefore, it seems that asthma in Latin America has some particular...

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PMID: 18769188
DOI: 10.1097/ACI.0b013e32830fb911

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