Brew BK, Allen CW, Toelle BG, Marks GB. Systematic review and meta‐analysis investigating
breast feeding and childhood wheezing illness. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology …

A review of previous research suggests increased probability of the prevalence of anxiety
disorders, and particularly panic disorder and panic attacks in patients with asthma, as …

If house dust mite allergen (Der p I) is an important cause of asthma, there should be a direct
relationship between level of exposure to this allergen and asthma severity. To examine this…

The reasons for measuring atopy and airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) and the methods
of validating measurements of asthma in population studies continue to be debated. The …

Because there Is no" gold standard" for defining asthma for epidemiology, we have defined
current asthma as bronchial hyperresponslveness (BHR) plus recent wheeze (In the …

Background: The measurement of peak nasal inspiratory flow (PNIF) provides a simple,
cheap, fast and readily available tool for determining the extent of nasal airway patency. …

Objective: To measure the prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
among people aged 40 years or older in Australia. Design, setting and participants: A cross‐…

We have previously shown that the prevalence of asthma in Australian primary schoolchildren
increased substantially between 1982 and 1992. 1 Similar increases have been reported …

We investigated whether an exercise challenge protocol is suitable for measuring bronchial
responsiveness in epidemiological studies of asthma in children, and determined its …

Most studies of long-term air pollution exposure and children's respiratory health have been
performed in urban locations with moderate pollution levels. We assessed the effect of …