Potential confounders in the asthma-diet association: How causal approach could help?

Allergy: European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 67, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1461-1463

  Bedard A ^a,b   Dumas, O ^a,b   Kauffmann, F ^a,b   Garcia Aymerich, J ^c,d,e,f   Siroux, V ^g,h   Varraso, R ^a,b  

^a CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN EPIDEMIOLOGY AND POPULATION HEALTH   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

^e CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^g INSERM   (France)

^h UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGY; ASTHMA; BODY COMPOSITION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; LETTER; LIFESTYLE; NUTRITION; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 84867477899     PISSN: 01054538     EISSN: 13989995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/all.12025     Document Type: Letter

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