Allergic rhinitis, asthma, and atopy among grape farmers in a rural population in Crete, Greece

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Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 372-378

  Chatzi, Leda ^a   Prokopakis, Emmanuel ^a   Tzanakis, Nikolaos ^a   Alegakis, Athanasios ^a   Bizakis, Ioannis ^a   Siafakas, Nikolaos ^a   Lionis, Christos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Allergic rhinitis; Asthma; Atopy; Grape farmers; Work related symptoms

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; ATOPY; BRONCHODILATATION; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; BRONCHUS OBSTRUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FARMER LUNG; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GRAPE; GREECE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASAL PRURITUS; PREVALENCE; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; RHINORRHEA; RURAL POPULATION; SKIN TEST; SMOKING; SNEEZING; SPIROMETRY; ASTHMA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PERENNIAL RHINITIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; ASTHMA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, PERENNIAL; RURAL POPULATION; SKIN TESTS; SPIROMETRY; VITIS;

EID: 13844311282     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.127.1.372     Document Type: Article

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