Childhood asthma

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 107, Issue SUPPL. 3, 1999, Pages 421-429

  Clark, Noreen M ^a   Brown, Randall W ^b   Parker, Edith ^a   Robins, Thomas G ^a   Remick Jr , Daniel G ^b   Philbert, Martin A ^a   Keeler, Gerald J ^a   Israel, Barbara A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma control; Child health; Childhood asthma; Environmental precipitants

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ASTHMA; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COCKROACH; COUGHING; DANDER; DERMATOPHAGOIDES PTERONYSSINUS; DISEASE CONTROL; DYSPNEA; FUNGUS SPORE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFLAMMATION; LUNG FUNCTION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLEN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; SMOKE; SYMPTOM; URBAN AREA; WHEEZING;

EID: 0032769231     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.99107s3421     Document Type: Review

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