Differences between infants and adults in the social aetiology of wheeze

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 636-642

  Baker, Deborah ^a   Henderson, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; HOUSEHOLD; HOUSING; HUMAN; INFANT FEEDING; INFECTION; LIFESTYLE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PARENT; POVERTY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIBLING; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED KINGDOM; WHEEZING;

EID: 0032828655     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.53.10.636     Document Type: Article

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