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Environmental tobacco smoke, parental atopy, and childhood asthma.
Environmental health perspectives - 1 Jun 2001
Jaakkola J J, Nafstad P, Magnus P
Abstract excerpt
We hypothesized that the joint effect of genetic propensity to asthma and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke on the risk of childhood asthma is greater than expected on the basis of their independent effects. We performed a population-based 4-year cohort study of 2,531 children born in Oslo, Norway. We collected information on the child's health and environmental exposures at birth and when the child was 6,...
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