Prevalence of respiratory symptoms and diseases in schoolchildren living in a polluted and in a low polluted area in Israel

Goren, Ayana I.; Hellmann, Sarah

doi:10.1016/s0013-9351(88)80004-5

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“…(Relative risks in our study were 1.81 and 1.49, respectively.) It is interesting that these relative risk values are lower than those we found in other studies carried out in Israel for similarly SO2 polluted (8) and for less SO2 polluted (7) areas.…”

Section: Discussioncontrasting

confidence: 76%

“…Most studied children from the three Haifa Bay communities (87.7-93.5%) lived in the area for at least 6 years; the lengths of stay in the area were similar in the other studies carried out in Israel (7,8).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 73%

“…Different prevalence in respiratory conditions were attributed to estimates of exposure based on community monitoring of air pollutants after controlling for other possible environmental risk factors. This cross-sectional study design and the lack of specific air pollution measurements constitute a certain limitation in these studies, and it is possible that other pollutants, either separately or in combination with SO2, contribute to the higher relative risk values observed in prior studies (7,8).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The health data gathered from schoolchildren growing up in three residential areas of the Haifa Bay region, Israel, indicate a higher prevalence of both respiratory symptoms and respiratory diseases among those children residing in the high pollution, and to a certain extent in the medium (2,7,8,11,13,(20)(21)(22)(23)(24).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…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).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

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Brenner³

et al. 1990

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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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Section: Discussioncontrasting

confidence: 76%

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confidence: 73%

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confidence: 99%