Asthma Mortality Inequalities in Brazil: Tolerating the Unbearable

Asthma is responsible for a high morbidity, resulting in hospitalizations, recurrent asphyxiation, and eventually death. In Brazil, where asthma is the third cause of hospitalizations for clinical illnesses and the fourth cause of death from respiratory diseases, some 20% of the population present w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: de Souza-Machado, Carolina, Souza-Machado, Adelmir, Cruz, Alvaro A.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: The Scientific World Journal 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3354422/