Parental socioeconomic status, childhood asthma and medication use--a population-based study.

BACKGROUND: Little is known about how parental socioeconomic status affects offspring asthma risk in the general population, or its relation to healthcare and medication use among diagnosed children. METHODS: This register-based cohort study included 211,520 children born between April 2006 and Dece...

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Main Authors: Tong Gong, Cecilia Lundholm, Gustaf Rejnö, Carina Mood, Niklas Långström, Catarina Almqvist
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4154738?pdf=render