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The role of environmental tobacco smoke in genetic susceptibility to asthma.
Current opinion in allergy and clinical immunology - 1 Oct 2004
Kurz Thorsten, Ober Carole
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The increase in asthma prevalence over the past 50 years suggests that exposures to environmental risk factors have also increased during this time. Environmental tobacco smoke is one of the most common indoor air pollutants and has been associated in epidemiologic studies with airway and allergic phenotypes in exposed individuals. However, symptoms occur in only some individuals, suggesting...
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