The asthma-obesity link in childhood: Open questions, complex evidence, a few answers only

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 476-484

  Matricardi, P M ^a   Gruber C ^a   Wahn, U ^a   Lau, S ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN; LEPTIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ATOPY; BODY MASS; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; ECZEMA; EOSINOPHILIA; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RISK; HAY FEVER; HUMAN; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; REMISSION; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKINFOLD; WHEEZING;

ASTHMA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 34047235463     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: 13652222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2007.02664.x     Document Type: Review

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