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Understanding asthma phenotypes: going beyond the atopic/non-atopic paradigm (AsthmaPhenotypes)
Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2020,
Fifteen years ago it was widely believed that asthma was an allergic/atopic disease caused by allergen exposure in infancy; this produced atopic sensitization and continued exposure resulted in eosinophilic airways inflammation, bronchial hyper-responsiveness and reversible airflow obstruction. It is now clear that this model is at best incomplete. Less than one-half of asthma cases involve allerg ...
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Risk of brain cancer from exposure to radiofrequency fields in childhood and adolescence (MOBI-KIDS)
Start date: Mar 1, 2009, End date: Feb 29, 2016,
The rapid worldwide increase in mobile phone use in adolescents and, more recently, children has generated considerable interest in the possible health effects of exposure to radio frequency (RF) fields. The current project aims to assess the potential carcinogenic effects of childhood and adolescent exposure to RF and ELF from mobile telephones on tumours of the central nervous system. The study ...
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