War-related stressors are associated with asthma risk among older Kuwaitis following the 1990 Iraqi invasion and occupation.

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Published in J Epidemiol Community Health on March 15, 2010

Authors

R J Wright1, M E Fay, S Franco Suglia, C J Clark, J S Evans, D W Dockery, J Behbehani

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1: Channing Laboratory 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. rosalind.wright@channing.harvard.edu

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