Incidence and prevalence of asthma among adult Finnish men and women of the Finnish Twin Cohort from 1975 to 1990, and their relation to hay fever and chronic bronchitis

Chest

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 928-936

  Huovinen, Elisa ^a   Kaprio, Jaakko ^a   Laitinen, Lauri A ^b   Koskenvuo, Markku ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Asthma; Chronic bronchitis; Cohort study; Hay fever; Incidence; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FINLAND; HAY FEVER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TWIN DISCORDANCE;

EID: 0032939876     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.115.4.928     Document Type: Article

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