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Current Allergy and Asthma Reports
Published in: Current Allergy and Asthma Reports 3/2012

01-06-2012 | ASTHMA (WJ CALHOUN AND J BOUSQUET, SECTION EDITORS)

The Role of Smoking in Allergy and Asthma: Lessons from the ECRHS

Authors: Simone Accordini, Christer Janson, Cecilie Svanes, Deborah Jarvis

Published in: Current Allergy and Asthma Reports | Issue 3/2012

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Abstract

The European Community Respiratory Health Survey is an international multicenter cohort study of asthma, allergy, and lung function that began in the early-1990s with recruitment of population-based samples of 20- to 44-year-old adults, mainly in Europe. The aims of the study are broad ranging but include assessment of the role of in utero exposure to tobacco smoke, exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, and active smoking on the incidence, prevalence, and prognosis of allergy and asthma. Cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses looking at these associations have been conducted, sometimes only using information collected in one country, and on other occasions using information collected in all the participating centers. This article summarizes the results from these various publications from this large epidemiologic study.
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Metadata
Title
The Role of Smoking in Allergy and Asthma: Lessons from the ECRHS
Authors
Simone Accordini
Christer Janson
Cecilie Svanes
Deborah Jarvis
Publication date
01-06-2012
Publisher
Current Science Inc.
Published in
Current Allergy and Asthma Reports / Issue 3/2012
Print ISSN: 1529-7322
Electronic ISSN: 1534-6315
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11882-012-0260-9

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