Primary asthma prevention: Is it possible?

Current Allergy and Asthma Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 255-261

  Becker, Allan ^a   Chan Yeung, Moira ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; TOBACCO SMOKE;

ASTHMA; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BREAST FEEDING; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DERMATOPHAGOIDES; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; FUNGUS SPORE; HOUSE DUST ALLERGY; HUMAN; LACTATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POLLUTANT; POPULATION RISK; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROTECTION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SMOKING; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STATUS; ANIMAL; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PYROGLYPHIDAE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ASTHMA; DIET; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PYROGLYPHIDAE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 47749107601     PISSN: 15297322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11882-008-0042-6     Document Type: Review

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