Canada: Is Aspiration During Swallowing More Common In Canadian Children With Indigenous Heritage?

Canada: Is Aspiration During Swallowing More Common In Canadian Children With Indigenous Heritage? Gina Rempel, Barb Borton, Elizabeth Esselmont, and Colin Shelton, 2011   While many factors that contribute to the occurrence of lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI) in Canadian indigenous children have been described, the role of aspiration during swallowing has not been explored in these children. Because of an increase in referrals of indigenous children from our catchment area...

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