Parental education and children's respiratory and allergic symptoms in the pollution and the young (PATY) study

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 95-107

  Gehring, U ^a,b,c   Pattenden, S ^d   Slachtova, H ^e   Antova, T ^f   Braun Fahrlander C ^g   Fabianova, E ^h   Fletcher, T ^d   Galassi, C ⁱ   Hoek, G ^c   Kuzmin, S V ^j   Luttmann Gibson, H ^k   Moshammer, H ^l   Rudnai, P ^m   Zlotkowska, R ⁿ   Heinrich, J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e Zdravotniho ustavu se sidlem v Ostrave   (Czech Republic)

^f MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^g SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^h Regional Authority of Public Health   (Slovakia)

ⁱ MOLINETTE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^j Ural Reg Environ Epidemiol Center   (Russian Federation)

^k HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^l MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^m Jozsef Fodor National Center for Public Health   (Hungary)

ⁿ INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Poland)

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Author keywords

Allergy; Asthma; Education; Respiratory symptoms; Socio economic status

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; AIR POLLUTION; ALLERGIC RASH; ALLERGY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRONCHITIS; CANADA; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COUGHING; EASTERN EUROPE; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOULD; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; WESTERN EUROPE;

ASTHMA; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPE; EXANTHEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NORTH AMERICA; PARENTS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RUSSIA; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 30744439839     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.06.00017205     Document Type: Article

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