PREVALENCE OF ATOPIC ECZEMA WITH OR WITHOUT WHEEZE IN KOSOVAR
ADOLESCENTS: ROLE OF GENDER, EXERCISE AND PARACETAMOL.
Luljeta
Ahmetaj1*, A. Elena
Martinez-Torres2*, Ylli Ahmetaj3,
Valbona Gashi1, Xhevat Kurhasani4,
Violeta Lokaj-Berisha1, Besa
Gacaferri-Lumezi1, Mirsije Shahini5,
Valbona Zhjeqi1, Luis García-Marcos6and the Global Asthma Network Phase I Kosovo Study
Group7
1Institute of Physiology & Immunology, Faculty of
Medicine, University of ”Hasan Prishtina”, Prishtina, Kosovo.
2Paediatric Allergy and Pulmonology Units and Nurse
Research Group, Virgen de la Arrixaca University Children‘s Hospital and
IMIB Biomedical Research Institute, Murcia, Spain.
3AAB College. Industriale Prishtinë–Fushë Kosovë.
Prishtina. Kosovo.
4UBT Higher Education Institution. Prishtina. Kosovo.
5Alergji Asthma Ylli” Polyclinic. Prishtina, Kosovo.
6Paediatric Allergy and Pulmonology Units, Virgen de
la Arrixaca University Children‘s Hospital, University of Murcia and
IMIB Biomedical Research Institute, Murcia, Spain.
7Members listed at the end of the paper.
*L Ahmentaj and AE Martinez-Torres should be considered joint first
author.
ORCIDs : L Ahmetaj: 0000-0003-0780-0791; AE Martinez-Torres:
0000-0002-7447-3199; Y Ahmetaj: 0000-0003-1859-8146; V Gashi:
0000-0001-7665-8704; X Kurhasani: 0000-0001-6074-9740; Violeta
Lokaj-Berisha: 0000-0001-9716-0243; B Gacaferri-Lumezi:
0000-0001-5276-167, M Shahini: 0000-0002-5364-7508; V Zhjeqi
0000-0001-7862-9827; Luis Garcia-Marcos: 0000-0002-0925-3851.
Running title: Epidemiology of atopic eczema in Kosovar
adolescents.