Dietary supplements and asthma: Another one bites the dust

Thorax

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 466-468

  Feary, Johanna ^a   Britton, John ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NOTTINGHAM CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ASCORBIC ACID; CITRUS FRUIT EXTRACT; FISH OIL; FOLIC ACID; MAGNESIUM; PLACEBO; SELENIUM;

ASTHMA; BRONCHOSPASM; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CHRONIC RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; CITRUS FRUIT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; EDITORIAL; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCURVY; SPINA BIFIDA; SPIROMETRY; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

ANTI-ASTHMATIC AGENTS; ASTHMA; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; HUMANS; SELENIUM; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 34250346372     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2006.073866     Document Type: Editorial

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