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Systematic review of worldwide variations of the prevalence of wheezing symptoms in children

Swatee P Patel1,2 email, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin2 email and Mark P Little2 email

School of Health and Social Care, the University of Greenwich, Southwood Site, Avery Hill Road, London SE9 2UG, UK

Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK

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Environmental Health 2008, 7:57doi:10.1186/1476-069X-7-57

Published: 10 November 2008

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Additional file 1:

Studies of wheeze prevalence in North and South America. The table provides the prevalence of current wheezing (in the past year), with confidence intervals, age of the children/adolescents in the study, whether the response was from the parent or the child, sample size with response rates, the year in which the study was conducted and the geographical region for each country, for all studies published between 1990 and 2005.

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Studies of wheeze prevalence in Europe. As in Additional file 1.

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Studies of wheeze prevalence in the Eastern Mediterranean and Africa. As in Additional file 1.

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Studies of wheeze prevalence in Asia. As in Additional file 1.

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Studies of wheeze prevalence in Australasia. As in Additional file 1.

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