Domestic gas appliances and lung disease

Thorax

Volumn 52, Issue SUPPL. 3, 1997, Pages

  Fuhlbrigge, Anne ^a   Weiss, Scott ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; FUEL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E;

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPY; COMBUSTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOKING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GAS; HAY FEVER; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM; WHEEZING;

EID: 0030776458     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.52.2008.s58     Document Type: Article

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