Research Article: Smoking, Urban Housing and Work-Aggravated Asthma are Associated with Asthma Severity in a Cross-Sectional Observational Study
Introduction:
Asthma is a common heterogeneous chronic disease which affects approximately million people worldwide. Asthma etiology is multifactorial and involves individual susceptibility to the disease. At the molecular level, multiple gene polymorphisms drive personal susceptibility to asthma. At the clinical level, atopy is a key marker of an increased risk of asthma. Exposure to environmental factors also appears to play a key role in the onset of asthma. Environmental factors such as tobacco smoke, airborne allergens and…
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