Increase in asthma: a more toxic environment or a more susceptible population?
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Increase in asthma: a more toxic environment or a more susceptible population?
Serial prevalence studies have shown that childhood asthma is becoming more common. In the UK two recent studies have found that the overall prevalence of episodic wheeze and of diagnosed asthma has doubled over the last two decades.'2 In these studies the prevalence of hay fever was also shown to have increased by a factor of three to four, while that of eczema had doubled. In children in New ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thx.49.2.171