High environmental relative moldiness index during infancy as a predictor of asthma at 7 years of age

Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 120-126

  Reponen, Tiina ^a   Vesper, Stephen ^b   Levin, Linda ^a   Johansson, Elisabet ^a   Ryan, Patrick ^a   Burkle, Jeffery ^a   Grinshpun, Sergey A ^a   Zheng, Shu ^a   Bernstein, David I ^a   Lockey, James ^a   Villareal, Manuel ^a   Khurana Hershey, Gurjit K ^c   Lemasters, Grace ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE;

AIR CONDITIONING; AIRWAY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DERMATOPHAGOIDES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIVE MOLDINESS INDEX; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANCY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL HISTORY; MOULD; PARENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIZATION; SPIROMETRY; SYMPTOM;

AGE OF ONSET; ASTHMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, FUNGAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNGI; HUMANS; INFANT; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK; SPIROMETRY;

EID: 80955181111     PISSN: 10811206     EISSN: 15344436     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anai.2011.04.018     Document Type: Article

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