Environmental risk factors in childhood asthma

Clinical and Experimental Allergy, Supplement

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 29-34

  Weiss, S T ^a  

^a CHANNING LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOBACCO SMOKE;

ASTHMA; ATOPY; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE COURSE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENDER; HUMAN; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 0031733767     PISSN: 09602178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2222.1998.028s5029.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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