Genetic Epidemiology of Asthma
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Genetic epidemiology of asthma.
Asthma is an increasingly common disease in the developed world (1-3). In the United States, the second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES II) (1976-1980) estimates of asthma prevalence (4) were 6.9 percent for whites and 9.2 percent for blacks. Most current definitions of asthma (5) characterize it as a (rapidly or slowly) reversible narrowing of the conducting airways of...
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عنوان ژورنال: Epidemiologic Reviews
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0193-936X,1478-6729
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.epirev.a017935