Outdoor air pollution, climatic changes and allergic bronchial asthma
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Outdoor air pollution, climatic changes and allergic bronchial asthma.
Both the prevalence and severity of respiratory allergic diseases such as bronchial asthma have increased in recent years. Among the factors implicated in this "epidemic" are indoor and outdoor airborne pollutants. Urbanisation with its high levels of vehicle emissions and Westernised lifestyle parallels the increase in respiratory allergy in most industrialised countries, and people who live i...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Respiratory Journal
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0903-1936,1399-3003
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.02.00401402