Maternal and childhood asthma: Risk factors, interactions, and ramifications

Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 198-204

  Dietert, Rodney R ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway inflammation; Allergy; Asthma; Chronic disease; Comorbidities; Immune dysfunction; Prevention; Risk factors; Safety testing

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PARACETAMOL;

ALLERGY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPY; CELL MATURATION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILDHOOD ASTHMA; DELIVERY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; FAMILY HISTORY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MATERNAL DISEASE; NEWBORN INFECTION; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; VACCINATION; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

ASTHMA; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79960841553     PISSN: 08906238     EISSN: 18731708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2011.04.007     Document Type: Article

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