In dust in primary schools and respiratory health in schoolchildren across Europe

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 704-712

  Jacobs, José ^a   Borràs Santos, Alicia ^b,c,d   Krop, Esmeralda ^a   Täubel, Martin ^e   Leppänen, Hanna ^e   Haverinen Shaughnessy, Ulla ^e   Pekkanen, Juha ^e,f   Hyvärinen, Anne ^e   Doekes, Gert ^a   Zock, Jan Paul ^b,c,d   Heederik, Dick ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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

^c HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

^d CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^e NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DUST;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; BACTERIAL STRUCTURES; CHILD; CLADOSPORIUM HERBARUM; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EUROPE; FUNGAL STRUCTURES; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; MICROORGANISM; MOISTURE; NONHUMAN; PAECILOMYCES VARIOTII; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY SCHOOL; RESPIROMETRY; WHEEZING; ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; ANALYSIS; ASTHMA; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMIDITY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NETHERLANDS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; SCHOOL; SPAIN;

ASTHMA; CHILD; DUST; EUROPE; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NETHERLANDS; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; SCHOOLS; SPAIN;

EID: 84907206568     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2014-102246     Document Type: Article

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