Association of body mass index with the development of methacholine airway hyperresponsiveness in men: the Normative Aging Study.

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Published in Thorax on July 01, 2002

Authors

A A Litonjua1, D Sparrow, J C Celedon, D DeMolles, S T Weiss

Author Affiliations

1: Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. augusto.litonjua@channing.harvard.edu

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