Predictors of childhood food allergy: Significance and implications

Asian Pacific Journal of Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 313-317

  Al Hammadi, Suleiman ^a   Zoubeidi, Taoufik ^a   Al Maskari, Fatma ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Allergy; Environment; Family history; Food allergy; Genetics

Indexed keywords

ALLERGIC DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FAMILY HISTORY; FOOD ALLERGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL HISTORY; RHINOCONJUNCTIVITIS;

ASTHMA; CHILD; CONJUNCTIVITIS, ALLERGIC; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; PARENTS; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, PERENNIAL; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84855225220     PISSN: 0125877X     EISSN: 22288694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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