How should a birth cohort study be organised? Experience from the German MAS cohort study

Paediatric Respiratory Reviews

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 169-176

  Nickel, Renate ^a   Niggemann, Bodo ^a   Grüber, Christoph ^a   Kulig, Michael ^a   Wahn, Ulrich ^a   Lau, Susanne ^a  

^a Charit Medical University   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atopy; Birth cohort; Epidemiology

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY;

ASTHMA; ATOPY; BIRTH; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE COURSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GERMANY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 0036425889     PISSN: 15260550     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1526-0542(02)00190-2     Document Type: Review

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