Chest ACCP Member Benefits
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

Guest Access | Sign In via User Name/Password
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF) Free
Right arrow Submit a response
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when eLetters are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Article Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Barbee, R. A.
Right arrow Articles by Burrows, B.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Barbee, R. A.
Right arrow Articles by Burrows, B.

Chest, Vol 87, 21S-25S, Copyright © 1985 by American College of Chest Physicians

ARTICLES

The epidemiology of asthma

RA Barbee, R Dodge, ML Lebowitz and B Burrows

Significant strides have been made in recent years in the epidemiologic study of obstructive lung diseases including asthma. Community population samples are being evaluated prospectively and followed up longitudinally to document the appearance of morbidity and clinical diagnoses. Also, a variety of environmental, physiologic, and immunologic variables are being collected on a serial basis to correlate changes with the appearance (or disappearance) of recognizable disease. Unfortunately, until the semantics and diagnostic labeling of airway abnormalities becomes more precise, especially in the older population, the incidence and prevalence of disease will lack the precision it should have.


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 NEJMHome page
T. W. Guilbert, W. J. Morgan, R. S. Zeiger, D. T. Mauger, S. J. Boehmer, S. J. Szefler, L. B. Bacharier, R. F. Lemanske Jr., R. C. Strunk, D. B. Allen, et al.
Long-term inhaled corticosteroids in preschool children at high risk for asthma.
N. Engl. J. Med., May 11, 2006; 354(19): 1985 - 1997.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]


HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
Copyright © 1985 by the American College of Chest Physicians.