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Reports summarize allergy in adolescents study results from J.L. Lukrafka and co-researchers

Published in Disease Risk Factor Week, March 28th, 2010

New investigation results, 'Performance of the ISAAC questionnaire to establish the prevalence of asthma in adolescents: a population-based study,' are detailed in a study published in The Journal of Asthma. "The epidemiology of asthma has been investigated with questionnaires, such as the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood protocol. To investigate the performance of the questions of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood questionnaire to diagnose asthma in adolescents," investigators in Porto Alegre, Brazil report.

"This is a population-based cross-sectional study of adolescents in the Syndrome of Obesity and Risk...

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