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. 2021 Jun;9(6):2549-2551.
doi: 10.1016/j.jaip.2021.03.027.

Do rural health disparities affect prevalence data in pediatric eosinophilic esophagitis?

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Do rural health disparities affect prevalence data in pediatric eosinophilic esophagitis?

Cameron Sabet et al. J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2021 Jun.
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Heat map of pediatric gastroenterologists in the United States. Tableau Public software was used to create this heat map by translating zip codes of pediatric gastroenterologists with memberships to NASPGHAN in the United States into longitudinal and latitudinal geospatial coordinates. Small dots represents location and larger circles represent percent of total population in the country.

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