Tackling asthma phenotypes in community studies

Thorax

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 369-370

  Gibson, Peter G ^a  

^a JOHN HUNTER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E;

ASTHMA; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; COUGHING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; EDITORIAL; EOSINOPHIL; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INNATE IMMUNITY; NEUTROPHIL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMOKING; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TH2 CELL;

EID: 66049137681     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: 14683296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2008.109710     Document Type: Editorial

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