Native and foreign born as predictors of pediatric asthma in an Asian immigrant population: a cross sectional survey
Open Access
- 2 May 2007
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Environmental Health
- Vol. 6 (1) , 13
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1476-069x-6-13
Abstract
Asthma prevalence is lower in less developed countries and among some recent immigrant populations in the US, but the reasons for this are not clear. One possibility is that early childhood infections are protective against asthma.Keywords
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