Asthma prevalence & risk factor in children: Indian Scenario
Keywords:
Asthma, risk factor, low income countries
Abstract
Various risk factors play a role in triggering allergic diseases among low-income households in developing countries. Indoor smoking, pets, overcrowding are some of the known factors for asthma.
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3. Jain A, Vinod Bhat H, Acharya D. Prevalence of bronchial asthma in rural Indian children: A cross sectional study from South India. Indian J Pediatr. 2010;77:31–5.
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5. Narayana PP, Prasanna MP, Narahari SR, Guruprasad AM. Prevalence of asthma in school children in rural India. Ann Thorac Med. 2010;5:118–9.
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14. George CE, Chopra H, Garg SK, Bano T, Jain S, Kumar A. Environmental Correlates of Bronchial Asthma in Children in a Slum of Meerut - A Cross-Sectional Study. Int J Med Res Rev 2014;2(5):469- 473.
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DOI: 10.17511/ijmrr.2014.i05.01
Published: 2014-10-31
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Gedam DS. Asthma prevalence & risk factor in children: Indian Scenario. Int J Med Res Rev [Internet]. 2014Oct.31 [cited 2024Dec.23];2(5):407-8. Available from: https://ijmrr.medresearch.in/index.php/ijmrr/article/view/130
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