Contribution of race/ethnicity and country of origin to variations in lifetime reported asthma: Evidence for a nativity advantage

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 690-697

  Subramanian, S V ^a   Jun, Hee Jin ^b   Kawachi, Ichiro ^a   Wright, Rosalind J ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RACE; SCHOOL CHILD; AFRICAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; ETHNOLOGY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HEALTH DISPARITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ASTHMA; CHICAGO; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHERS; PREVALENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63149141438     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.128843     Document Type: Article

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