Josep M. Antó

TL;DR: It is concluded that these outbreaks of asthma in Barcelona were caused by the inhalation of soybean dust released during the unloading of soybeans at the city harbor.

TL;DR: Coexistence of eczema, rhinitis, and asthma in the same child is more common than expected by chance alone-both in the presence and absence of IgE sensitisation-suggesting that these diseases share causal mechanisms.

TL;DR: The aim of the present study was to identify distinct asthma phenotypes by applying latent class analysis (LCA), a model-based clustering method, to two large epidemiological studies, and revealed four distinct asthma Phenotypes in each sample.

TL;DR: The transfer into Spanish of a multi-dimensional measure of perceived health originally developed in Great Britain, the Nottingham Health Profile (NHP), and an assessment of the preliminary validity of the version is presented suggest that the Spanish version of the NHP is culturally equivalent to the original questionnaire, and has a similar level of construct validity.

TL;DR: This data indicates that intake of n‐3 fatty acids during pregnancy could play a role in the risk of asthma and atopy in the offspring.