Incidence and prognosis of asthma and wheezing illness from early childhood to age 33 in a national British cohort

British Medical Journal

Volumn 312, Issue 7040, 1996, Pages 1195-1199

  Strachan, David P ^a   Butland, Barbara K ^a   Anderson, H Ross ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRONCHITIS; CHILD; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECZEMA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HAY FEVER; HUMAN; INFANT; LIFESTYLE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRAINE; NEWBORN; OBSTETRIC HEMORRHAGE; PERTUSSIS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; RELAPSE; REMISSION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UNITED KINGDOM; WHEEZING;

EID: 0029915460     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.312.7040.1195     Document Type: Article

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