Authors:
Soto-Martinez M, Sly PD.
Authors notes:
Chron Respir Dis. 2010 Aug;7(3):173-86. Epub 2009 Oct 9.
Keywords:
relationship between, environmental exposures, children, adult, lung disease, case for outdoor exposures, asthma,
Abstract:
There is a growing understanding that chronic respiratory diseases in adults have their origins in early life. Adverse environmental exposures occurring in vulnerable periods during lung growth and development in the fetal period and in early childhood that alter lung structure and limit the growth in lung function may have lifelong consequences.