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Adult-onset asthma becomes the dominant phenotype among women by age 40 years. the longitudinal CARDIA study.
Annals of the American Thoracic Society - 1 Jun 2013
Sood Akshay, Qualls Clifford, Schuyler Mark, Arynchyn Alexander, Alvarado Jesse H, Smith Lewis J, Jacobs David R
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RATIONALE: Although asthma is usually considered to originate in childhood, adult-onset disease is being increasingly reported. OBJECTIVES: To contrast the proportion and natural history of adult-onset versus pediatric-onset asthma in a community-based cohort. We hypothesized that asthma in women is predominantly of adult onset rather than of pediatric onset. METHODS: This study used data from the Coronary Artery...
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