Association of indoor air pollution with rhinitis symptoms, atopy and nitric oxide levels in exhaled air

International Archives of Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 153, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 403-412

  Hersoug, Lars Georg ^a   Husemoen, Lise Lotte N ^a   Thomsen, Simon Francis ^b   Sigsgaard, Torben ^c   Thuesen, Betina H ^a   Linneberg, Allan ^a  

^a Research Centre for Prevention and Health   (Denmark)

^b BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Candles; Environmental tobacco smoke; Fractional exhaled nitric oxide; Particulate matter; Upper airway symptoms; Woodstoves

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; NITRIC OXIDE; TOBACCO SMOKE;

ADULT; AGED; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPY; BIRCH; CAT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DERMATOPHAGOIDES PTERONYSSINUS; FEMALE; GRASS; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RHINITIS; SNEEZING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ALLERGENS; BREATH TESTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREVALENCE; RHINITIS; SMOKING;

EID: 77953555710     PISSN: 10182438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000316352     Document Type: Article

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