Smoking and atopy as determinants of sputum eosinophilia and bronchial hyper-responsiveness in adults with normal lung function

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 97, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 947-954

  Petays T ^a,b   von Hertzen, Leena ^a   Metso, T ^a   Rytila P ^a   Jousilahti, P ^b,c   Helenius, I ^a   Vartiainen, E ^b   Haahtela, T ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Asthma; Atopy; Bronchial hyper responsiveness; Epidemiology; Sputum eosinophilia

Indexed keywords

EOSINOPHIL CATIONIC PROTEIN; METHACHOLINE; MYELOPEROXIDASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATOPY; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; FINLAND; FORCED EXPIRATORY FLOW; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; LIFESTYLE; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZATION; REGISTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPUTUM;

EID: 0042131627     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0954-6111(03)00122-7     Document Type: Article

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