Obesity - A Promoter of Allergy?

International Archives of Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 162, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 205-213

  Baumann, Susanne ^a   Lorentz, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allergy; Asthma; Inflammation; Obesity

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYTOKINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; FOOD ALLERGEN; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ALLERGIC CONJUNCTIVITIS; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ALLERGY; ASTHMA; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; ATOPY; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WHEEZING; ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; BODY WEIGHT; FOOD ALLERGY; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FUNCTIONAL RESIDUAL CAPACITY; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; SKIN SENSITIZATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ASTHMA; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS;

EID: 84887030501     PISSN: 10182438     EISSN: 14230097     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000353972     Document Type: Review

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