Air Pollution and Prevalence of Allergic Diseases in Georgian Adolescent Population
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چکیده
During the last decades special attention of scientists has been focused on environmental pollution intensity and a great number of the so-called outdoor allergens (SO2, NO2, phenol, combustion gases, etc.) as well as on their increasing effect of formation of allergic diseases. Children's population is most sensitive to the influence of unfavorable environmental factors. This is associated with a number of physiological peculiarities of a children's organism.
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