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Original Research

Risk Factors and Treatment Types for Asthma Severity Among Adult Patients

Kidanemariam Alem1 Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Mekelle University, Mekelle, EthiopiaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Sefinew Gebeyehu2 Department of Statistics, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Adigrat University, Adigrat, Ethiopia
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Yibeltal Arega3 Department of Statistics, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia
Pages 167-177 | Published online: 07 May 2020

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