Respiratory Medicine
Volume 101, Issue 5 , Pages 983-988 , May 2007

The relation of adult bronchial responsiveness to serious childhood respiratory illness in the ECRHS

  • Susan Chinn

      Affiliations

    • Department Public Health Sciences, King's College London, 5th floor Capital House, 42 Weston Street, London SE1 3QD, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +442073528121x3522; fax: +442073518322.
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  • Christer Janson

      Affiliations

    • Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, University of Uppsala, 751 85 Uppsala, Sweden
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  • Cecilie Svanes

      Affiliations

    • Department Thoracic Medicine, 5021 Haukeland Hospital, Bergen, Norway
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  • Shyamali Dharmage

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology, School of Population Health, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Level 2, 723 Swanston Street, Carlton, Vic 3053, Australia
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  • Deborah Jarvis

      Affiliations

    • Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health Group, NHLI at Imperial College London, Emmanuel Kaye Building, London SW3 6LR, UK

Received 22 May 2006 ,Accepted 5 September 2006.

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PII: S0954-6111(06)00446-X

doi: 10.1016/j.rmed.2006.09.004

Respiratory Medicine
Volume 101, Issue 5 , Pages 983-988 , May 2007

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