Interactions between domestic water hardness, infant swimming and atopy in the development of childhood eczema

Environmental Research

Volumn 116, Issue , 2012, Pages 52-57

  Chaumont, Agnès ^a   Voisin, Catherine ^a   Sardella, Antonia ^a   Bernard, Alfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Atopy; Chlorine; Eczema; Swimming pool; Water hardness

Indexed keywords

ALLERGY; CHILD HEALTH; CHLORINE; DETERGENT; DISEASE PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SKIN DISORDER; SWIMMING; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; ATOPY; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHLORINATION; ECZEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SWIMMING; SWIMMING POOL; WATER HARDNESS; WATER QUALITY;

BELGIUM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SWIMMING; SWIMMING POOLS; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84861687124     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2012.04.013     Document Type: Article

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