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Wheezing, allergy, and parasite infection in children in urban and rural Ethiopia
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Epidemiological studies in developing countries suggest that intestinal parasite infection may reduce the risk of asthma. Because this evidence is all derived from adults and older children, we have investigated the relation between parasite infection, wheezing, and allergen skin sensitization in nested case-control studies drawn from a survey of 7,155 children aged 1 to 4 years living in urban and rural areas of Jimma, Ethiopia. Infection with parasites was common, predominantly with Trichur...
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Wheezing, allergy, and parasite infection in children in urban and rural Ethiopia
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
; Epidemiological studies in developing countries suggest that intestinal parasite infection may reduce the risk of asthma. Because this evidence is all derived from adults and older children, we have investigated the relation between parasite infection, wheezing, and allergen skin sensitization in
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Asthma and Current Intestinal Parasite Infection: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
; Rationale: Epidemiologic studies suggest that intestinal parasite infections may protect against asthma. Objectives: A systematic review and meta-analysis of epidemiologic studies to determine whether total or species-specific current parasite infection is associated with a reduced risk of asthma
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Parasites, allergy, and asthma
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
; Asthma is generally more common in developed than developing countries, and within developing countries, it tends to be rare in rural relative to urban populations (1). This indicates either that environmental factors associated with urbanization and affluence cause asthma or that aspects of a
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Economic Analysis of Risk of Gastrointestinal Parasite Infection in Cattle in Meghalaya
Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics
; Livestock and its products are subject to various risks, such as production risk, market/price risk, government-influenced risk, and personal or human risk. The important production risks include weather variability, pasture and fodder growing conditions and pest and disease attack. These factors
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Pets' waste can cause a parasite infection in humans.
Knight Ridder/Tribune
; ... Web site www.petconnection.com. Write to him in care of McClatchy-Tribune News Service, 700 12th St. NE, STE 1000, Washington, DC 20005.) ___ (c) 2006, McClatchy-Tribune News Service Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. For reprints ...
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Diesel Exhaust, Solvents, and Other Occupational Exposures as Risk Factors for Wheeze among Farmers
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
; Farmers engage in activities that result in exposure to diesel exhaust, solvents, welding fumes, and other respiratory irritants. Using the Agricultural Health Study, a cohort of pesticide applicators in Iowa and North Carolina, we evaluated the odds of wheeze associated with nonpesticide
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Fed: asthma and wheeze still major concern
AAP General News (Australia)
; AAP General News (Australia) 08-05-2001 Fed: asthma and wheeze still major concern BRISBANE, Aug 5 AAP - Australian children continue to wheeze ...
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[ Politicians all at sea Great wheeze ]
Daily Mail
; Politicians all at sea Great wheeze AS THE never- ending saga of the Pounds 440million edifice that is Follyrood continues to make us the laughing stock of the world, here is a question for us to ponder. Do you think the 129 Parcel o' Rogues' great reluctance to set up temporary home in the old
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Infants who wheeze with common cold more likely to have asthma.(Brief article)
Community Practitioner
; American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology 63rd Annual Meeting San Diego Abstract 619. Roberg, Kathleen A et al. Presented February 25, 2007 Infants who wheeze when they have the common cold or rhinovirus are three times more likely to be diagnosed with asthma by the time they are six years
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Antioxidant Intake in Pregnancy in Relation to Wheeze and Eczema in the First Two Years of Life
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
; Two thousand women were recruited for a prospective investigation of the influence of maternal antioxidant intake in pregnancy on the development of asthma and eczema in children. A food frequency questionnaire was used to characterize diet during pregnancy and blood antioxidant levels were
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