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Long-term smoking increases the need for acute care among asthma patients: a case control study

BACKGROUND: To examine risk factors for asthma patients’ emergency room (ER) visits in a well organized asthma care setting. METHODS: A random sample of 344 asthma patients from a Pulmonary Clinic of a University Hospital were followed through medical records from 1995 to 2006. All the ER visits due...

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Autores principales: Kauppi, Paula, Kupiainen, Henna, Lindqvist, Ari, Haahtela, Tari, Laitinen, Tarja
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4108236/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25030656
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2466-14-119