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Risk Factors for Asthma Prevalence Among Urban and Nonurban African American Children

Jodi von Maffei Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.
, M.P.H.,
William S. Beckett Department of Environmental Medicine, Box EHSC, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 575 Elmwood Ave., Rochester, NY, 14642, U.S.A.; Departments of Environmental Medicine and Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, U.S.A.
, M.D.,
Kathleen Belanger Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.
, Ph.D.,
Elizabeth Triche Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.
, Ph.D.,
Heping Zhang Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.
, Ph.D.,
James F. Machung Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.
, M.P.H. &
Brian P. Leaderer Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.
, Ph.D. show all
Pages 555-564 | Published online: 31 Oct 2001

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