Latitude, birth date, and allergy

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 0977-0985

  Wjst, Matthias ^a   Dharmage, Shyamali ^b   André, Elisabeth ^a   Norback, Dan ^c   Raherison, Chantal ^d   Villani, Simona ^e   Manfreda, Jure ^f   Sunyer, Jordi ^g   Jarvis, Deborah ^h   Burney, Peter ^h   Svanes, Cecilie ⁱ  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d HAUT LÉVÊQUE HOSPITAL   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^g INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

^h Capital House ^*  (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; ALLERGEN;

ADULT; ALLERGIC DISEASE; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ALLERGY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INDIA; LANGUAGE; LATITUDE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH AFRICA; NORTH AMERICA; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REDUCTION; RISK FACTOR; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; BIRTH; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEY; HYPERSENSITIVITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SEASON;

ADULT; ALLERGENS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; LANGUAGE; MALE; PARTURITION; PREVALENCE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS;

EID: 27644449191     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020294     Document Type: Article

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