منابع مشابه
Thirty deaths from asthma.
The features associated with 30 childhood deaths from asthma in the period 1962-83 are reviewed. There was an annual death rate of 0.47/100 000 population at risk in the later part of this period in Avon county. Asthma deaths occurred in chronic severe sufferers at night and, although there was usually time for effective treatment, inadequate management probably contributed to the deaths, with ...
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common condition, and from a stirvey of the illnesses of the adult population of England and Wales (1944-7) by Stocks (1949) it has been estimated that asthma occurs in one in every 110 of the adult population, or, more correctly, in 904 per 100,000 of the adult population. The frequency of death from status asthmaticus in this common condition is, however, uncertain, and opinions differ. Witts...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1968
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.5594.767