Sensitization to cat allergen is associated with asthma in older men and predicts new-onset airway hyperresponsiveness: The normative aging study

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 156, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 23-27

  Litonjua, Augusto A ^b   Sparrow, David ^a   Weiss, Scott T ^c   O'Connor, George T ^c   Long, Aidan A ^c   Ohman Jr , John L ^c  

^a VA Medical Research Service   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; METHACHOLINE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALLERGENICITY; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CAT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; SENSITIZATION; SPIROMETRY;

EID: 0030788924     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.156.1.9608072     Document Type: Article

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