Age- and gender-specific trends in respiratory outpatient visits and diagnoses at a tertiary pediatric hospital in China: a 10-year retrospective study

• Main Authors: Peng Shi (Author), Xiaobo Zhang (Author), Lijuan Liu (Author), Liangfeng Tang (Author), Jing Li (Author), Libo Wang (Author), Albert M. Li (Author), Yang Cao (Author), Hong Xu (Author), Guoying Huang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-03-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background Respiratory infections are one of three leading causes of childhood mortality, and worldwide increase and recent plateau in childhood asthma has been reported. However, data on trends of respiratory diseases over long period of time is limited. This study aimed to determine the t...