作者
Katherine K Nishimura, Joshua M Galanter, Lindsey A Roth, Sam S Oh, Neeta Thakur, Elizabeth A Nguyen, Shannon Thyne, Harold J Farber, Denise Serebrisky, Rajesh Kumar, Emerita Brigino-Buenaventura, Adam Davis, Michael A LeNoir, Kelley Meade, William Rodriguez-Cintron, Pedro C Avila, Luisa N Borrell, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Jose R Rodriguez-Santana, Śaunak Sen, Fred Lurmann, John R Balmes, Esteban G Burchard
发表日期
2013/8/1
期刊
American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine
卷号
188
期号
3
页码范围
309-318
出版商
American Thoracic Society
简介
Rationale: Air pollution is a known asthma trigger and has been associated with short-term asthma symptoms, airway inflammation, decreased lung function, and reduced response to asthma rescue medications.
Objectives: To assess a causal relationship between air pollution and childhood asthma using data that address temporality by estimating air pollution exposures before the development of asthma and to establish the generalizability of the association by studying diverse racial/ethnic populations in different geographic regions.
Methods: This study included Latino (n = 3,343) and African American (n = 977) participants with and without asthma from five urban regions in the mainland United States and Puerto Rico. Residential history and data from local ambient air monitoring stations were used to estimate average annual exposure to five air pollutants: ozone, nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulfur dioxide …
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