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Gender differences in asthma development and progression.
Gender medicine - 1 Jan 2007
Postma Dirkje S
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BACKGROUND: Asthma is a chronic inflammatory airway disease that has a higher prevalence in boys than in girls before puberty and a higher prevalence in women than in men in adulthood. Because of the complexity of the disease, no single straightforward mechanism can explain the gender differences found in asthma. OBJECTIVE: This article reviews the effects of sex on the development and outcome of atopy and...
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