Sibling number and prevalence of allergic disorders in pregnant Japanese women: Baseline data from the Kyushu Okinawa maternal and child health study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Miyake, Yoshihiro ^a   Tanaka, Keiko ^a   Arakawa, Masashi ^b  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLERGIC CONJUNCTIVITIS; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EAR; EAR DISEASE; ECZEMA; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; SIBLING;

ADULT; ASTHMA; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CONJUNCTIVITIS, ALLERGIC; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EAR; EAR DISEASES; ECZEMA; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SIBLINGS;

EID: 79960233479     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-561     Document Type: Article

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