Fetal growth and risk of childhood asthma and allergic disease

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1430-1447

  Tedner, S G ^a   Ortqvist A K ^a   Almqvist, C ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Allergic diseases; Anthropometry; Children; Epigenetics; Fetal growth; Fetal programming; Infant; Low birth weight; Twin studies; Wheezing

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ALLERGIC DISEASE; ASTHMA; ATOPY; BREAST FEEDING; CATCH UP GROWTH; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; COUGHING; DYSANAPSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; FETUS CIRCULATION; FETUS GROWTH; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEREDITY; HIGH BIRTH WEIGHT; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LUNG DIFFUSION CAPACITY; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MEDLINE; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL STATUS; TWINS; UMBILICAL CORD; WEIGHT GAIN; WHARTON JELLY; WHEEZING;

ASTHMA; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84866603720     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: 13652222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2012.03997.x     Document Type: Review

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