Domestic airborne pollutants and asthma and respiratory symptoms in middle age

Respirology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 411-418

  Mészáros, Desiree ^a   Burgess, John ^b   Walters, E Haydn ^a   Johns, David ^a   Markos, James ^c   Giles, Graham ^d   Hopper, John ^b   Abramson, Michael ^e   Dharmage, Shyamali C ^b   Matheson, Melanie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b LAUNCESTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

asthma; cohort study; environmental tobacco smoke; mould; risk factor

Indexed keywords

TOBACCO SMOKE;

ADULT; AIR CONDITIONING; AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPY; CHEST TIGHTNESS; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH SURVEY; HOME ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOULD; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; UTILITY WORKS, APPLIANCES AND SERVICES; WHEEZING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PREVALENCE;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ASTHMA; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84896314888     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: 14401843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/resp.12245     Document Type: Article

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