Cohort profile: The Bern Infant Lung Development cohort

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 366-376

  Fuchs, Oliver ^a   Latzin, Philipp ^a   Kuehni, Claudia E ^a   Frey, Urs ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 6; MANNOSE BINDING LECTIN; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; TOBACCO SMOKE;

COHORT ANALYSIS; HEALTH IMPACT; INFANT MORTALITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPY; BOCAVIRUS; BRONCHOSPASM; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORONAVIRUS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FAMILY HISTORY; FOLLOW UP; FUNDING; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; INFANCY; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; LUNG FUNCTION; MATERNAL SMOKING; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NONHUMAN; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS; PATERNAL SMOKING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL CARE; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RHINOVIRUS; SIBLING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TELECONSULTATION; WHEEZING;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ASTHMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LUNG; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RISK FACTORS; SWITZERLAND;

BERN [SWITZERLAND]; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84859644499     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyq239     Document Type: Article

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