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Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 1991 37(4):176-178; doi:10.1093/tropej/37.4.176
© 1991 by Oxford University Press
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The Prevalence of Bronchial Asthma Among High School Pupils in Holon (Israel)

U. Brook, M.D.

E. Wolfson Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University Israel

Correspondence: Dr U. Brook, Department of Pediatrics, E. Wolfson Medical Center, P.O. Box 5, Holon 58100, Israel

Three-thousand-and-fifty-one high school pupils aged between 14 and 18 years were examined in the Holon area (central Israel), during the years 1985–1989. Four-hundred-and-fifty-eight had previous recurrent episodes of wheezing (15.01±2.4 per cent). Two-hundred-and-seventy-five adolescents had suffered from bronchospasm crisis over the last 12 months (9±0.80 per cent) and were diagnosed as active asthmatics.


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