A comparison of three methods to measure asthma in epidemiologic studies: results from the Danish National Birth Cohort.

Asthma is a heterogeneous outcome and how the condition should be measured to best capture clinically relevant disease in epidemiologic studies remains unclear. We compared three methods of measuring asthma in the Danish National Birth Cohort (n>50.000). When the children were 7 years old, the pr...

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Main Authors: Susanne Hansen, Marin Strøm, Ekaterina Maslova, Erik Lykke Mortensen, Charlotta Granström, Sjurdur F Olsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3350521?pdf=render