Is the increase in childhood asthma coming to an end? Findings from three surveys of schoolchildren in Rome, Italy

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1989 • 886 citations

Respiratory symptoms and atopy in Aberdeen schoolchildren: evidence from two surveys 25 years apart.

1992 • 710 citations

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1994 • 594 citations

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1998 • 582 citations

National survey of prevalence of asthma among children in the United States, 1976 to 1980.

1988 • 525 citations

Increase of asthma, allergic rhinitis and eczema in Swedish schoolchildren between 1979 and 1991

1995 • 460 citations

Prevalence of asthma in Melbourne schoolchildren: changes over 26 years.

1991 • 424 citations

Asthma and allergic rhinitis in Swedish conscripts

1989 • 399 citations

Prevalence of asthma and hay fever in England and Wales.

1987 • 389 citations

Recent Trends in the Prevalence and Severity of Childhood Asthma

1992 • 361 citations

Prevalence of asthma in Finnish young men.

1990 • 297 citations

Investigation into the increase in hay fever and eczema at age 16 observed between the 1958 and 1970 British birth cohorts

1997 • 243 citations

Prevalence of asthma in adults in Busselton, Western Australia.

1992 • 195 citations

Continuing increase in respiratory symptoms and atopy in Aberdeen schoolchildren

1996 • 176 citations

Sibship size, birth order, and atopy in 11,371 Italian young men

1998 • 170 citations

Increasing asthma prevalence in a rural New Zealand adolescent population: 1975-89.

1990 • 142 citations

Declining incidence of episodes of asthma: a study of trends in new episodes presenting to general practitioners in the period 1989-98

2000 • 127 citations

Trends in Physician-Diagnosed Asthma Prevalence in Manitoba between 1980 and 1990

1993 • 114 citations

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1983 • 112 citations

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1999 • 108 citations

Increase of Asthma and Allergic Rhinitis Prevalence in Young Italian Men

1996 • 108 citations

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1976 • 104 citations

Changing prevalence of asthma in school children: evidence for diagnostic changes in asthma in two surveys 13 yrs apart

1997 • 102 citations

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1989 • 92 citations

Increasing prevalence of asthma over 12 years among dairy farmers on Gotland, Sweden: storage mites remain dominant allergens

1999 • 74 citations

Total population survey of the frequency and severity of asthma in 17 year old boys in an urban area in Israel.

1993 • 66 citations

The magnitude of the effect of smaller family sizes on the increase in the prevalence of asthma and hay fever in the United Kingdom and New Zealand

1999 • 64 citations

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1998 • 46 citations

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1995 • 43 citations