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Title Respiratory epidemiology / edited by Isabella Annesi-Maesano, Bo Lundbäck and Giovanni Viegi
Published Sheffield : European Respiratory Society, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 284 pages)
Series European respiratory monograph ; v. 65
European respiratory monograph ; v. 65
Contents ""Front cover ""; ""Inside front cover""; ""Title page""; ""Blank page""; ""Blank page ""; ""Table of contents ""; ""Blank page ""; ""Blank page ""; ""Preface ""; ""Guest Editors ""; ""Introduction ""; ""List of abbreviations""; ""Chapter 1. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ""; ""Chapter 2. Asthma and rhinitis ""; ""Chapter 3. Tuberculosis ""; ""Chapter 4. Lung cancer and pleural mesothelioma ""; ""Chapter 5. Pneumonia and other infectious diseases ""; ""Chapter 6. Interstitial lung diseases""; ""Chapter 7. Obstructive sleep apnoea in adults ""
""Chapter 17. Diet """"Chapter 18. Poverty and health disparities ""; ""Chapter 19. Study design: features of non-experimental studies ""; ""Chapter 20. Questionnaires and lung function ""; ""Chapter 21 Inflammation and allergy related to bronchial hyperresponsiveness ""; ""Blank page""; ""Other titles in this series ""; ""Blank page ""; ""Outside back cover ""
""Chapter 8. The economic burden of respiratory diseaes: lung cancer and oxygen treatment """"Chapter 9. The economic burden of respiratory diseases: COPD and asthma""; ""Chapter 10. Sex, gender and respiratory health ""; ""Chapter 11. Genetic factors in asthma and COPD""; ""Chapter 12. Early life events including transgenerational epigenetic effects on respiratory outcomes""; ""Chapter 13. Active and passive tobacco smoking""; ""Chapter 14. Outdoor air pollution""; ""Chapter 15. Indoor air pollution""; ""Chapter 16. Work-related respiratory diseases in the European Union ""
Summary This issue of the ERS Monograph comprehensively demonstrates the developments in respiratory medicine in recent years. It outlines the importance of epidemiology in respiratory medicine, and will prove a methodological tool that will help disease management. It should also be used as an advocacy tool for the sake of public health
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Lungs -- Diseases.
Respiratory organs -- Diseases -- Epidemiology.
Form Electronic book
Author Annesi-Maesano, I. (Isabella)
Lundbäck, Bo.
Viegi, G. (Giovanni)
ISBN 1849840539 (electronic bk.)
9781849840538 (electronic bk.)