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Impact of active and passive smoking as risk factors for asthma and COPD in women presenting to primary care in Syria: first report by the WHO-GARD survey group

Yousser Mohammad1 National Center for Research in Chronic Respiratory Diseases, Tishreen University School of Medicine, Latakia, SyriaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Rafea Shaaban1 National Center for Research in Chronic Respiratory Diseases, Tishreen University School of Medicine, Latakia, Syria
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Bassam Abou Al-Zahab2 Ministry of Health, Damascus, Syria
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Nikolai Khaltaev3 Global Alliance Against Chronic Respiratory Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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Jean Bousquet4 Department of Respiratory Diseases, University Hospital, Hôpital Arnaud de Villeneuve, Montpellier, France;5 Inserm, CESP Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, U1018, Respiratory and Environmental Epidemiology Team, Villejuif, France
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Basim Dubaybo6 Department of Internal Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA
Pages 473-482 | Published online: 02 Oct 2013

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