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Asthma in West Sweden - a translational study from epidemiology to proteomics
(2012-11-20)
Asthma has been increasing in prevalence and morbidity, however it is unclear if the increase continues. Asthma has long been regarded as a single disease entity, but is now recognised as a heterogenic disease with different ...
Prevalence, risk factors and comorbidity of rhinitis, asthma and aspirin-intolerance in West Sweden
(2013-05-24)
The prevalence of rhinitis and asthma has increased considerably over the past century. The cause of this increase remains unknown. Furthermore, rhinitis and asthma are now considered heterogeneous syndromes encompassing ...
Allergic sensitisation and asthma in Swedish adults
(1999)
The prevalence of asthma has increased in many countries. Heredity, atopic sensitisation, smoking and other environmental factors are suspected risk factors. The aims of this thesis were to investigate the occurrence ...
Asthma and rhinitis in bakers. An epidemiological study
(1999)
Abstract The aims of the thesis were to estimate the risk for bakers to contract asthma or rhinitis. We also wanted to study the impact of exposure to flour dust and of allergic sensitisation on the risk for asthma or ...
The association between eczema, asthma and rhinitis -population studies of prevalence and risk factors among adults
(2016-04-28)
Background: Allergic diseases such as asthma, rhinitis and eczema have increased significantly since the middle of the past century and are now common conditions among both children and adults. The increase was observed ...