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New Risk Factors for Adult-Onset Incident Asthma. A Nested Case–Control Study of Host Antioxidant Defense
20 Nov 2014
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RATIONALE: Host antioxidant defense, consisting of enzymatic antioxidant activity and nonenzymatic antioxidant micronutrients, is implicated in asthma pathogenesis. Studies of antioxidant defense and adult incident asthma have either used measures of antioxidants estimated from questionnaires or not considered enzymatic aspects of host defense. OBJECTIVES: We conducted the first study designed and powered to...
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