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Exhaled Breath Condensate pH in Adult Croatian Population Without Respiratory Disorders: How Healthy a Population Should Be to Provide Normative Data? Cover

Exhaled Breath Condensate pH in Adult Croatian Population Without Respiratory Disorders: How Healthy a Population Should Be to Provide Normative Data?

Archives of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology
Volume 60 (2009): Issue 1 (March 2009)
By: Veda Varnai,  Anita Ljubičić,  Ljerka Prester and  Jelena Macan  
Open Access
|Mar 2009

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/10004-1254-60-2009-1897 | Journal eISSN: 1848-6312 | Journal ISSN: 0004-1254
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Language: English, Croatian, Slovenian
Page range: 87 - 97
Published on: Mar 27, 2009
Published by: Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
Keywords:
atopy,
bronchial reactivity,
EBC pH,
health criteria,
sex,
skin prick test,
smoking
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