SYSTEMIC STUDIES ON MOLECULAR MECHANISMS FOR NON-ALLERGENIC AIR POLLUTANT FORMALDEHYDE-INDUCED ASTHMA

In past 20 years, the average prevalence of asthma in China has been growing up from 0.9 % to about3.0 %. We carried out these studies to find out the reasons and relative molecular mechanisms. Datamultiple-regression was used for prevalence and risk factor investigation (1990-2000) and animalexperiments were used for mechanism study.