Racial disparities in allergic outcomes in African Americans emerge as early as age 2 years

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 909-917

  Wegienka, G ^a   Havstad, S ^a   Joseph, C L M ^a   Zoratti, E ^a   Ownby, D ^b   Woodcroft, K ^a   Johnson, C C ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Allergic disease; Atopy; Ige; Racial disparities

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; ENDOTOXIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALLERGIC REACTION; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BREAST FEEDING; CAR; COCKROACH; COHORT ANALYSIS; DOG; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; GRASS; HOUSE DUST; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILK; PARENT; PEANUT; PHYSICIAN; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RAGWEED; SKIN TEST; SOCIAL ASPECT; WHEEZING;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; CATS; COHORT STUDIES; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; DOGS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; PREGNANCY; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; SKIN TESTS;

EID: 84865189553     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: 13652222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2011.03946.x     Document Type: Article

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