The Relationship between Birth Weight and Childhood Asthma: A Population-Based Cohort Study

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 60-64

  Sin, Don D ^a,d   Spier, Sheldon ^b   Svenson, Larry W ^a,c   Schopflocher, Don P ^c   Senthilselvan, Ambikaipakan ^a   Cowie, Robert L ^b   Man, S F Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c Health Surveillance Branch   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BIRTH WEIGHT; CANADA; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HIGH BIRTH WEIGHT; HUMAN; INFANT; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; ONSET AGE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ALBERTA; ASTHMA; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INFLAMMATION; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX EDUCATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0346101591     PISSN: 10724710     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.158.1.60     Document Type: Article

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