Early-life environmental risk factors for asthma: Findings from the children's health study

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 760-765

  Salam, Muhammad Towhid ^a   Li, Yu Fen ^a   Langholz, Bryan ^a   Gilliland, Frank Davis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; Breast feeding; Cockroach; Day care; Farm enviroment; Herbicide; Pesticide; Sibship size; Wood smoke

Indexed keywords

HERBICIDE; OIL; PESTICIDE;

AGE; ANAMNESIS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD HEALTH; COCKROACH; COMMUNITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP; DAY CARE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXHAUST GAS; EXPERIENCE; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENDER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTHER; ONSET AGE; PHYSICIAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SIBLING; SMOKE; SMOKING; SOOT; TELEPHONE; TIME; UNITED STATES; WHEEZING; WOOD;

ANIMALIA; BLATTARIA;

EID: 2442626779     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.6662     Document Type: Article

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