Swimming pool attendance, respiratory symptoms and infections in the first year of life

European Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 172, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 977-985

  Font Ribera, Laia ^a,b   Villanueva, Cristina M ^a,b,c   Ballester, Ferran ^b,d,e   Santa Marina, Loreto ^b,f,g   Tardón, Adonina ^b,h   Espejo Herrera, Nadia ^a,b   Esplugues, Ana ^b,d,e   Rodríguez Dehli, Cristina ⁱ   Basterrechea, Mikel ^b,f,g   Sunyer, Jordi ^a,b,c,j  

^a Barcelona Biomedical Research Park   (Spain)

^b CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^e Center for Public Health Research CSISP   (Spain)

^f Public Health Division of Gipuzkoa   (Spain)

^g BIODONOSTIA HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Spain)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

ⁱ HOSPITAL SAN AGUSTÍN   (Spain)

^j UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

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Author keywords

Baby swimming; Birth cohort; Eczema; Otitis; Wheezing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; ATOPY; BABY; BIRTH; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; COUGHING; DELIVERY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OTITIS; PREGNANCY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STATUS; SUMMER; SWIMMING POOL; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; WHEEZING;

COHORT STUDIES; ECZEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; OTITIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SPAIN; SWIMMING POOLS;

EID: 84880148852     PISSN: 03406199     EISSN: 14321076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00431-013-1975-x     Document Type: Article

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