Risk factors for asthma in school children - Results of a seven-year follow-up

Central European Journal of Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 149-154

  Zejda, J E ^a   Kowalska, M ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

Asthma; Children; Follow up; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

COAL;

ALLERGIC CONJUNCTIVITIS; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; ATOPY; COOKING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVALUATION; EXPOSURE; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEATING; HOST; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MEASLES; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARENT; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTION; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SMOKING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ASTHMA; CHILD; COAL; CONJUNCTIVITIS, ALLERGIC; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; POLAND; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0141782334     PISSN: 12107778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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