Breast is best for preventing asthma and allergies - Or is it?

Lancet

Volumn 360, Issue 9337, 2002, Pages 887-888

  Sly, Peter D ^a   Holt, Patrick G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; FOOD ALLERGEN;

ADULT DISEASE; ALLERGY; ASTHMA; ATOPY; BREAST FEEDING; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIET RESTRICTION; DISEASE COURSE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILY HISTORY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; INCIDENCE; INFLAMMATION; LIFE EVENT; MATERNAL DISEASE; MILK; NOTE; PHENOTYPE; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIZATION; WHEEZING;

EID: 0037152097     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(02)11068-3     Document Type: Note

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