Background: Developmental periods in early life may be particularly vulnerable to impacts
of environmental exposures. Human research on this topic has generally focused on single …

To cite this article: Bousquet J, Anto J, Auffray C, Akdis M, Cambon‐Thomsen A, Keil T, Haahtela
T, Lambrecht BN, Postma DS, Sunyer J, Valenta R, Akdis CA, Annesi‐Maesano I, Arno …

… Onset was also found to occur earlier than in mono sensitized individuals or in those with
asthma or rhinitis and no IgE sensitization (Siroux, personal communication). …

The role of smoking as potential risk factor, selection factor ("healthy smoker" effect) and
modifying factor (severity) of asthma was studied in the Epidemiological study on the Genetics …

Background A genomewide association study has shown an association between variants
at chromosome 17q21 and an increased risk of asthma. To elucidate the relationship …

We examined common variation in asthma risk by conducting a meta-analysis of worldwide
asthma genome-wide association studies (23,948 asthma cases, 118,538 controls) of …

The chronic impact of ambient air pollutants on lung function in adults is not fully understood.
The objective of this study was to investigate the association of long-term exposure to …

There is a need to improve asthma characterisation by integrating multiple aspects of the
disease. The aim of the present study was to identify distinct asthma phenotypes by applying …

Background Short-term exposure to air pollution has adverse effects among patients with
asthma, but whether long-term exposure to air pollution is a cause of adult-onset asthma is …

Asthma severity in relation to body mass index (BMI) has rarely been studied. The relation
between BMI and asthma severity was studied by sex in 366 adults with asthma from the …