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Article: Study results from Abant Izzet Baysal University, Department of Chest Diseases provide new insights into asthma in children.(Clinical report)
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- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- May 26, 2008
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A new study, 'Prevalence and risk factors of asthma and allergic diseases among schoolchildren in Bolu, Turkey,' is now available. "In this study we aimed to detect the prevalence and risk factors of asthma and allergic diseases in children aged between 7 and 14 years old at rural and urban areas of Bolu, Turkey. Questionnaire of International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) phase one and questionnaire including questions about family, demographic, socio-economic characteristics of children were applied to 931 schoolchildren who were selected by randomized sampling," researchers in Bolu, Turkey report (see also
Asthma
).
"In children, the ...