Asthma in Africa
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چکیده
Looking at about 120 papers from Medline on asthma in Africa, we found that asthma research is currently dominated by authors from South Africa, followed by authors from Nigeria, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya, and The Gambia. Most are case studies, closely followed by crosssectional studies, and then case-control studies. There have been very few cohort studies. Only a few studies use objective measures [2,3], which makes the new PLoS Medicine study unusual, since the researchers used repeated measurements of skin prick tests and bronchial reactivity [1].
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