Respiratory Medicine
Volume 104, Issue 8 , Pages 1138-1144 , August 2010

Mild asthma in overweight women: A new phenotype?

  • Marissa Engbers

      Affiliations

    • CHU-Montpellier, Respiratory Department, Hôpital Arnaud de Villeneuve, 371 av doyen Gaston Giraud, 34295 Montpellier Cx 5, France
    • Amsterdam University Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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  • Isabelle Vachier

      Affiliations

    • CHU-Montpellier, Respiratory Department, Hôpital Arnaud de Villeneuve, 371 av doyen Gaston Giraud, 34295 Montpellier Cx 5, France
    • ,
  • Peter Sterk

      Affiliations

    • Amsterdam University Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Arnaud Bourdin

      Affiliations

    • CHU-Montpellier, Respiratory Department, Hôpital Arnaud de Villeneuve, 371 av doyen Gaston Giraud, 34295 Montpellier Cx 5, France
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  • Delphine Gras

      Affiliations

    • Département des Maladies Respiratoires, AP-HM, Laboratoire d'immunologie INSERM CNRS U 600, UMR6212, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
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  • Philippe Godard

      Affiliations

    • CHU-Montpellier, Respiratory Department, Hôpital Arnaud de Villeneuve, 371 av doyen Gaston Giraud, 34295 Montpellier Cx 5, France
    • ,
  • Pascal Chanez

      Affiliations

    • CHU-Montpellier, Respiratory Department, Hôpital Arnaud de Villeneuve, 371 av doyen Gaston Giraud, 34295 Montpellier Cx 5, France
    • Département des Maladies Respiratoires, AP-HM, Laboratoire d'immunologie INSERM CNRS U 600, UMR6212, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Université de la Méditerranée, AP-HM, 270 boulevard de Sainte-Marguerite, F-13009 Marseille, France. Tel.: +33 49174 46 30; fax: +33 49174 16 06.

Received 7 April 2009 ,Revised 18 February 2010 ,Accepted 19 February 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.rmed.2010.02.016

Respiratory Medicine
Volume 104, Issue 8 , Pages 1138-1144 , August 2010

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