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Characteristics of inner-city children with asthma: the National Cooperative Inner-City Asthma Study.
Asthma morbidity has increased dramatically in the past decade, especially among poor and minority children in the inner cities. The National Cooperative Inner-City Asthma Study (NCICAS) is a multicenter study designed to determine factors that contribute to asthma morbidity in children in the inner cities. A total of 1,528 children with asthma, ages 4 to 9 years old, were enrolled in a broad-b...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Immunology and Allergy Clinics of North America
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0889-8561
DOI: 10.1016/j.iac.2014.09.006