Prenatal nutrition and asthma: Hope or hype?

Thorax

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 483-485

  Shaheen, Seif O ^a  

^a NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ANTHROPOMETRY; ASTHMA; ATOPY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIETARY INTAKE; EDITORIAL; EPIGENETICS; FOLLOW UP; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; VITAMIN INTAKE; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WHEEZING;

ANTIOXIDANTS; ASTHMA; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MINERALS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; VITAMINS;

EID: 45149133775     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2007.090019     Document Type: Editorial

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