Home exposures, parental atopy, and occurrence of asthma symptoms in adulthood in Southern Taiwan

Chest

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 300-308

  Lee, Yung Ling ^a   Hsiue, Tzuen Ren ^b   Lee, Cheng Hung ^b   Su, Huey Jen Jenny ^a   Guo, Yueliang Leon ^a,c  

^a Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Adult; Asthma; Gene environmental interaction; Home exposure; Parental atopy; Population attributable risk

Indexed keywords

TOBACCO SMOKE;

ADULT; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; ATOPY; ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HOME ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOULD; PARENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TAIWAN;

EID: 33344458945     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.129.2.300     Document Type: Article

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