Reading attainment and physical development after whooping cough.
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Reading attainment and physical development after whooping cough.
Anthropometric measurements were made on 360 primary school children with a history of whooping cough and on 711 controls. Altogether 245 (68%) cases and 469 (66%) controls had taken tests of reading attainment and a smaller number had taken tests of intelligence. No significant differences were found between cases and controls in any of the anthropometric measurements nor in reading age or int...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
سال: 1985
ISSN: 0143-005X
DOI: 10.1136/jech.39.4.314