Cohort profile: The leicester respiratory cohorts

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 977-985

  Kuehni, Claudia E ^a   Brooke, Adrian M ^b   Strippoli, Marie Pierre ^a   Spycher, Ben D ^a   Davis, Anthony ^c   Silverman, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c Specialist Community Child Health Services   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIASTHMATIC AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; METHACHOLINE;

COHORT ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY DISEASE;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FOLLOW UP; GENETIC SCREENING; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INCIDENCE; PATIENT MONITORING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SPIROMETRY; TREND STUDY; UNITED KINGDOM; WHEEZING;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ASTHMA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENGLAND; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PATIENT DROPOUTS; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; LEICESTER [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 35648959374     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dym090     Document Type: Article

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