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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>2448-9190</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista alergia México]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Rev. alerg. Méx.]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2448-9190</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Colegio Mexicano de Inmunología Clínica y Alergia A.C.]]></publisher-name>
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<article-meta>
<article-id>S2448-91902017000200188</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.29262/ram.v64i2.256</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Prevalencia del asma en América Latina. Mirada crítica a partir del ISAAC y otros estudios]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Prevalence of asthma in Latin America. Critical look at ISAAC and other studies]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Ocampo]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Jaime]]></given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Gaviria]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Rodrigo]]></given-names>
</name>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Sánchez]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Jorge]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad de Antioquia IPS Universitaria ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Medellín ]]></addr-line>
<country>Colombia</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Instituto de Investigaciones Inmunológicas  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Cartagena ]]></addr-line>
<country>Colombia</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af3">
<institution><![CDATA[,Fundación para el Desarrollo de las Ciencias Médicas y Biológicas (Fundemeb)  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Cartagena ]]></addr-line>
<country>Colombia</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2017</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2017</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>64</volume>
<numero>2</numero>
<fpage>188</fpage>
<lpage>197</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2448-91902017000200188&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2448-91902017000200188&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2448-91902017000200188&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen: Actualmente el proyecto ISAAC (International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood) constituye un acercamiento global para conocer la prevalencia del asma y otras alergias en diferentes latitudes del orbe. Una de las ventajas de este proyecto es que con la misma metodología compara la prevalencia del asma en más de 50 ciudades durante el mismo periodo de tiempo, sin embargo, no ha sido evaluada la reproducibilidad de los resultados, en comparación con los proporcionados por otras investigaciones de prevalencia realizadas en cada región. En esta revisión nos propusimos como objetivo comparar los datos epidemiológicos aportados por el estudio ISAAC con los datos identificados en algunos estudios de cohorte regionales y, mediante una evaluación crítica, resaltar las principales similitudes y analizar las diferencias entre estos datos epidemiológicos.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract: Currently, the ISAAC (International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood) project is a global approach to assess the prevalence of asthma and other allergies in different latitudes. One of the great advantages of this project is that it compares using the same methodology, the prevalence of asthma in more than 50 cities during the same period of time, nevertheless the reproducibility of these results when compared with other studies of prevalence in each region has not been evaluated. In this review we aim to compare the epidemiological data provided by the ISAAC against the data identified in some regional cohort studies and by means of a critical evaluation to highlight the main similarities and to analyze the differences between these epidemiological data.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Estudios transversales]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Estudios epidemiológicos]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Asthma]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Prevalence]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Latin America]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[ISAAC]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Cross-Sectional studies]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Epidemiologic studies]]></kwd>
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