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Induction of asthma and the environment: what we know and need to know.
Environmental health perspectives - 1 Apr 2006
Selgrade MaryJane K, Lemanske Robert F, Gilmour M Ian, Neas Lucas M, Ward Marsha D W, Henneberger Paul K, Weissman David N, Hoppin Jane A, Dietert Rodney R, Sly Peter D, Geller Andrew M, Enright Paul L, Backus Gillian S, Bromberg Philip A, Germolec Dori R, Yeatts Karin B
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The prevalence of asthma has increased dramatically over the last 25 years in the United States and in other nations as a result of ill-defined changes in living conditions in modern society. On 18 and 19 October 2004 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences sponsored the workshop "Environmental Influences on the Induction and Incidence of Asthma" to...
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