Allergic diseases: The price of civilisational progress

Postepy Dermatologii i Alergologii

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 77-83

  Rutkowski, Krzysztof ^a   Sowa, Paweł ^b   Rutkowska Talipska, Joanna ^b   Sulkowski, Stanisław ^b   Rutkowski, Ryszard ^b  

^a CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Allergy; Environment; Epidemic; Genes; Hypothesis; Nutrition

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; HOST FACTOR; LIPID;

AIR POLLUTION; ALLERGIC DISEASE; CIVILIZATION; COMMUNITY LIVING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAT INTAKE; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HUMAN; HYGIENE; HYGIENE HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL SMOKING; REVIEW; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

EID: 84900325805     PISSN: 1642395X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5114/pdia.2014.40936     Document Type: Review

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