Journal article
Epidemiology of asthma: risk factors for development
Abstract
This comprehensive review of the recent literature was undertaken to determine the current state of knowledge of the risk factors involved in the development of asthma in order to focus investigations in a proposed new longitudinal birth cohort study. The origins of asthma appear to lie in the prenatal and early postnatal period, and renewed investigations in this period with long-term close follow-up and objective phenotypic characterization …
Authors
Subbarao P; Becker A; Brook JR; Daley D; Mandhane PJ; Miller GE; Turvey SE; Sears MR
Journal
Expert Review of Clinical Immunology, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 77–95
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Publication Date
January 2009
DOI
10.1586/1744666x.5.1.77
ISSN
1744-666X