Untreated asthma, final height and sitting height/leg length ratio in Chile
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Untreated asthma, final height and sitting height/leg length ratio in Chile.
OBJECTIVE There is uncertainty as to whether asthma has an effect on final height. We investigated using subjective and objective assessments whether untreated asthma is associated with final height, leg length and sitting height to leg length ratio in an area of Chile in which almost no one received asthma treatment. METHODS We collected data on 1232 males and females aged 22-28 years in a s...
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عنوان ژورنال: Respiratory Medicine
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0954-6111
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2005.07.018