Outdoor sulphur dioxide and respiratory symptoms in Czech and Polish school children: a small-area study (SAVIAH)

Pikhart, Hynek; Bobák, Martin; Goryński, Paweł; Wojtyniak, Bogdan; Dáňová, Jana; Celko, Martin; Kříž, B; Briggs, David; Elliott, Paul

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“…Finally, results suggest that childhood exposure to particulate matter does not impact long-term respiratory health in adulthood. This contradicts findings from previous studies that link short-term respiratory health outcomes to childhood exposures to particulate matter and SO 2 (Schwartz and Lucas 2000;Avol et al 2001;Pikhart et al 2001;Gauderman et al 2002) and thus raises a number of important questions in relation to the latency period of respiratory health outcomes, critical and sensitive periods of exposures, and possible cumulative pathways in relation to exposures to particular air pollutants. This might, in fact, suggest that the residual impact of childhood exposure to particulate matter declines as young people reach adulthood.…”

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“…Review studies indicate that PM 2.5 have stronger acute respiratory impacts than coarse particles (Schwartz and Lucas 2000) and are associated with decrements in lung function growth (Ward and Ayres 2004). Literature also suggests that childhood exposure to SO 2 is related to respiratory symptoms (persistent wheeze, cough, phlegm), lifetime prevalence of diagnosed asthma, infectious airway diseases (e.g., pneumonia, bronchitis, chest colds, and tonsillitis), and a decrease in lung function (Pinter et al 1996;Sanchez et al 1999;Pikhart et al 2001;Zhang et al 2002).…”

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Does Chronic Exposure to Air Pollution in Childhood Impact Long-Term Respiratory Health?

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Elliott

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2012

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This study seeks to examine the relationship between childhood exposure to air pollution and long-term respiratory health and to identify significant predictors of respiratory health in adulthood. Logistic regression modeling was undertaken using health and exposure data for 395 participants who resided during childhood in four distinct neighborhoods in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Significant predictors include exposure to SO 2 in childhood, location of residence in childhood, sex, residential and occupational histories, stressful life events, and respiratory health in childhood. This study suggests that the health impacts of childhood exposure to air pollution are located beyond the short-term period that most research addresses. Key Words: air pollution, children, cohort, health geography, respiratory health.El doble propósito de este estudio es examinar la relación existente entre la exposición de la niñez a la contaminación aérea y la salud respiratoria a largo plazo, e identificar predictores significativos de la salud respiratoria en los adultos. Se acometió un modelaje de regresión logística utilizando datos de salud y exposición de 395 participantes que durante su niñez residieron en cuatro vecindarios diferentes en Hamilton, Ontario, Canadá. Los predictores significativos incluyen la exposición a SO 2 durante la niñez, localización del lugar de residencia en la niñez, sexo, historias residenciales y ocupacionales, eventos estresantes a lo largo de la vida y salud respiratoria en la niñez. El estudio sugiere que los impactos sobre la salud por exposición a la contaminación aérea en la niñez se ubican más allá del corto período del que se ocupan la mayoría de las investigaciones. Palabras clave: contaminación aérea, niños, cohorte, geografía de la salud, salud respiratoria.

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Does Chronic Exposure to Air Pollution in Childhood Impact Long-Term Respiratory Health?

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2012

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“…18 Although never known to be a respiratory irritant, SO 2 is known to induce respiratory symptoms. 19 In fact, both had aversive odors and showed relative stronger effects in our results. O 3 had a weaker effect on the questionnaire-determined perceived ambient air pollution.…”

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Indoor and Outdoor Environmental Exposures, Parental Atopy, and Physician-Diagnosed Asthma in Taiwanese Schoolchildren

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ABSTRACT. Objective. Parental atopy and environmental exposures are recognized risk factors for childhood asthma. However, the relative contributions of specific risk factors and the overall contributions of indoor and outdoor exposures remain unexplored. This study was undertaken to identify risk factors, estimate the population attributable risk of each exposure, and compare the data for boys versus girls for physician-diagnosed asthma in Taiwanese schoolchildren.Methods. During a February to June 2001 cross-sectional national survey, 35 036 6-to 15-year-old schoolchildren were chosen from 22 elementary and 22 middle schools located within 1-km catchment areas of 22 airmonitoring stations in Taiwan. The main outcome measure was physician-diagnosed asthma, as reported by the parents. We investigated hereditary and indoor and outdoor environmental factors for childhood asthma by questionnaire. The adjusted prevalences of questionnaire-determined outdoor indicators were also compared with air-monitoring data.Results. Outdoor air pollutants were associated with parent-reported perceived ambient air pollution. Physician-diagnosed asthma was reported for 8.1% of the boys (1330 of 16 441) and 5.6% of the girls (894 of 16 056). The risk of physician-diagnosed asthma was significantly associated with parental atopy and perceived ambient air pollution in both sexes. A sthma is the single most common chronic childhood disease in developed nations, 1,2 and its prevalence and severity have been reported as increasing in many countries. [3][4][5][6] The changing pattern of the disease has not been fully explained, in part because of an incomplete understanding of its pathogenesis. The change has been too rapid to be accounted for by changes in gene frequencies. It is also unlikely that the increase can be totally accounted for by changes in either clinical diagnostic patterns or increased recognition of asthma symptoms by the general population. 7 This does, however, suggest a role for environmental exposures in the cause of this evolving epidemic. 8 Many factors have been proved to be associated with the prevalence and/or attacks of asthma, including personal factors (smoking habits, genetics, age, sex, nutritional status, number of siblings, coexisting lung disease, lifestyle, allergy status, family history, and occupation) and environmental stimuli (house dust, animal danders, molds, cockroach infestation, occupational exposure, environmental tobacco smoke, indoor/outdoor air pollution, cooking fumes, aeroallergens, and climate). 9 -29 Both genetic and environmental factors are believed to contribute to the relationship. However, epidemiologic evidence concerning different effects in boys and girls in relationships between environmental exposures and childhood asthma was insufficient and warranted additional investigations.The first aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between physician-diagnosed asthma and selected risk factors in a population-based sample of 6-to 15-year-old elementary-and middleschool...

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“…Proximity to main roads and photochemical industrialized zones was also applied by using geographic information system (GIS). Reliable measurements of daily SO 2 , NO 2 , CO, and PM 10 concentrations were available from several air monitoring stations by using various extrapolation method, such as kriging to predict the spatial distribution of the air pollutants (Pikhart et al 2001;Mulholland et al, 1998;Jerrett et al 2005b). The kriging method, unlike proximity models (Jerrett et al 2005a), uses real pollution measurements in the computation of exposure estimates.…”

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Air Pollution and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome

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Ha²

2011

Air Pollution - New Developments

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Outdoor sulphur dioxide and respiratory symptoms in Czech and Polish school children: a small-area study (SAVIAH)

Abstract: In these two Central European cities with relatively high levels of air pollution, small-area based indicators of long-term outdoor winter concentrations of SO2 were associated with wheezing/whistling and with asthma diagnosed by a doctor.

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Does Chronic Exposure to Air Pollution in Childhood Impact Long-Term Respiratory Health?

Does Chronic Exposure to Air Pollution in Childhood Impact Long-Term Respiratory Health?

Indoor and Outdoor Environmental Exposures, Parental Atopy, and Physician-Diagnosed Asthma in Taiwanese Schoolchildren

Air Pollution and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome

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