The rising trends in asthma.
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester ; New York :
Wiley,
1997.
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| Series: | Ciba Foundation symposium ;
206. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Asthma : a dynamic disease of inflammation and repair
- Allergen recognition in the origin of asthma
- T cells as orchestrators of the asthmatic response
- The structural and functional consequences of chronic allergic inflammation of the airways
- Genetic susceptibility to asthma in a changing environment
- General discussion
- Interpretation of epidemiological surveys of asthma
- Evidence for the increase in asthma worldwide
- International trends in asthma mortality
- General discussion
- Inferences from occupational asthma
- The role of domestic allergens
- Air pollution and trends in asthma
- The role of respiratory viruses in asthma
- Prenatal origins of asthma and allergy
- Maternal risk factors in asthma
- Diet as a risk factor for asthma
- Summary