Is the increase in allergic respiratory disease caused by a cohort effect?

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1702-1705

  Linneberg, Allan ^a   Nielsen, N H ^a,b   Madsen, F ^a,c   Frolund L ^a,b   Dirksen, A ^a,b   Jorgensen T ^a  

^a GLOSTRUP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c FREDERIKSBERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Adult; Atopy; Cohort effect; Epidemiology; Respiratory hypersensitivity; Specific IgE

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT ALLERGY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BLOOD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DENMARK; ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; LIFESTYLE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALLERGENS; COHORT EFFECT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENMARK; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY HYPERSENSITIVITY; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0036458345     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2222.2002.01537.x     Document Type: Article

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