Prevalence of atopic dermatitis and serum IgE values in nursery school children in Ishigaki Island, Okinawa, Japan

Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 248-255

  Hamada, Maki ^a   Furusyo, Norihiro ^a,b   Urabe, Kazunori ^a   Morita, Keisuke ^a   Nakahara, Takeshi ^a   Kinukawa, Naoko ^a   Nose, Yoshiaki ^a   Hayashi, Jun ^a,b   Furue, Masutaka ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atopic dermatitis; Epidemiology; Immunoglobulin E; Questionnaires

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INFORMED CONSENT; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSERY SCHOOL; PARENT; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED KINGDOM WORKING PARTY DIAGNOSTIC QUESTIONNAIRE;

EID: 19744373701     PISSN: 03852407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1346-8138.2005.tb00757.x     Document Type: Article

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