Air pollution, hygiene and health of danish schoolchildren

Holma, Bo; Kjaer, G.; Stokholm, J

doi:10.1016/0048-9697(79)90090-1

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“…A special effort is being made to detect health effects resulting from long-term exposure to concentrations of pollutants prevailing in communities. In the last two decades many environmental surveys were carried out among children, who are not occupationally exposed and do not smoke, taking into account many other factors to which they are exposed and which may affect their respiratory system in the same way as air pollution (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16).…”

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Prevalence of respiratory conditions among schoolchildren exposed to different levels of air pollutants in the Haifa Bay area, Israel.

Goren

Hellman²,

Brenner³

et al. 1990

Environ Health Perspect

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During spring 1984, 2334 second and 2000 fifth-grade schoolchildren living in three Haifa Bay areas on the eastern Mediterranean coast with different levels of air pollution were studied. The parents of these children filled out American Thoracic Society and National Heart and Lung Institute health questionnaires, and the children performed the following pulmonary function tests (PFT): FVC, FEV1, FEV,/FEV, PEF, FEF50, and FEF75. A trend of higher prevalence of most reported respiratory symptoms was found for schoolchildren growing up in the medium and high pollution areas as compared with the low pollution area. Part of the reported respiratory diseases were significantly more common among children from the high pollution area. Models fitted for the respiratory conditions that differed significantly among the three areas of residence also included background variables that could be responsible for these differences. Relative risk values, which were calculated from the logistic models, were in the range of 1.38 for sputum with cold and 1.81 for sputum without cold for children from the high pollution area as compared with 1.00 for children from the low pollution area. All the measured values of PFT were within the normal range. There was no consistent trend of reduced pulmonary function that characterized any residential area.

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