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. 1999 Mar;54(3):268–272. doi: 10.1136/thx.54.3.268

How much asthma is really attributable to atopy?

N Pearce 1, J Pekkanen 1, R Beasley 1
PMCID: PMC1745435  PMID: 10325905

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