Occupational exposures and asthma–COPD overlap in a clinical cohort of adult-onset asthma
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Office Work Exposures and Adult-Onset Asthma
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: ERJ Open Research
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2312-0541
DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00191-2019