Day care attendance, recurrent respiratory tract infections and asthma.

Open Access

1 October 1999

journal article
research article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in International Journal of Epidemiology

Vol. 28 (5) , 882-887
https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/28.5.882

Abstract

Our objective was to use a causal model for childhood asthma to determine whether the effect of day care attendance on asthma was mediated by recurrent respiratory tract infections.

Keywords

MODEL
RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS
DAY CARE
CARE ATTENDANCE
RECURRENT RESPIRATORY TRACT