The environmental predictors of allergic
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von Mutius, Erika
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Article
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2000
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The prevalence of allergic diseases has been on the rise for the last 200 years, when hay fever, an easy and obvious-to-recognize illness, was virtually unknown in Europe and North America. Genetic factors are unlikely to explain these rapid increases. Among the potential environmental factors, expo