Is the association between low birth weight and asthma independent of genetic and shared environmental factors?

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 169, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1337-1343

  Villamor, Eduardo ^a   Iliadou, Anastasia ^b   Cnattingius, Sven ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Asthma; Birth weight; Confounding factors (epidemiology); Twins

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASTHMA; BODY MASS; CHILD HEALTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH RISK;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILDHOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC RISK; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PREMATURITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ASTHMA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASES IN TWINS; ENVIRONMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGISTRIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SWEDEN;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 66249108276     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwp054     Document Type: Article

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