Today, one child in four has an ongoing allergic disease in europe. What will the situation be tomorrow?

Allergy: European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 570-571

  Wickman, Magnus ^a   Lilja, G ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b SACHS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ALLERGIC DISEASE; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ALLERGY TEST; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; EUROPE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; PREVALENCE; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN TEST; SLEEP DISORDER; UNITED KINGDOM; WHEEZING;

ASTHMA; EUROPE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; PREVALENCE; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, PERENNIAL; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0038236599     PISSN: 01054538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1398-9995.2003.00179.x     Document Type: Editorial

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