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GINIplus and LISAplus. Design and selected results of two German birth cohorts about natural course of atopic diseases and its determinants
1 Jan 2017
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The increasing prevalence of asthma, hay fever, and allergic sensitization in Western Germany after east-west division in 1949 and their rapid increase in East German children after re-unification in 1990 are strong indications for the role of life-style and/or environmental factors in the development of atopic diseases. Obviously, the perinatal period is crucial for priming the immune system. Therefore,...
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