Annals of Epidemiology
Volume 20, Issue 3 , Pages 217-222, March 2010

Subsequent Autoimmune or Related Disease in Asthma Patients: Clustering of Diseases or Medical Care?

  • Kari Hemminki, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
    • Center for Family and Community Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge, Sweden
    • Center for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: K. Hemminki, DKFZ, Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany. Tel: 49-6221-421800; Fax 49-6221-421810.
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  • Xinjun Li, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Center for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
    • ,
  • Jan Sundquist, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Center for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
    • Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
    • ,
  • Kristina Sundquist, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Center for Family and Community Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge, Sweden
    • Center for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

Received 7 August 2009; accepted 25 November 2009. published online 28 December 2009.

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 This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (Grant No. R01-H271084-1), the Swedish Research Council (Grant No. K2001-27X-11651-06C), and the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (Grant No. 2001-2373).

PII: S1047-2797(09)00363-9

doi:10.1016/j.annepidem.2009.11.007

Annals of Epidemiology
Volume 20, Issue 3 , Pages 217-222, March 2010

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