Academic Pediatrics
Volume 9, Issue 1 , Pages 60-63 , January 2009

Screen Time Use Among Urban Children With Asthma

Received 25 February 2008 ,Accepted 6 October 2008.

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 Presented in part at the Pediatric Academic Societies’ Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 2007.

PII: S1876-2859(08)00209-X

doi: 10.1016/j.acap.2008.10.001

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