Is large birth weight associated with asthma risk in early childhood?

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 169-171

  To, Teresa ^a,b,c   Guan, Jun ^c   Wang, Chengning ^a   Radhakrishnan, Dhenuka ^a   McLimont, Susan ^a   Latycheva, Oxana ^d   Gershon, Andrea S ^a,b,c,e  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^d Asthma Society of Canada   (Canada)

^e SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CANADA; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HIGH BIRTH WEIGHT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; SCHOOL CHILD;

ASTHMA; BIRTH WEIGHT; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; ONTARIO; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84856101505     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2010.187047     Document Type: Article

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