Why despite the lower prevalence, asthma is more severe in the Brasilian semiarid region?

M. Valois Correia Junior (Recife/PE, Brazil)

Source: International Congress 2017 – Insight into childhood asthma and paediatric pulmonology
Session: Insight into childhood asthma and paediatric pulmonology
Session type: Thematic Poster
Number: 4150
Disease area: Airway diseases, Paediatric lung diseases

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