Objectives The purpose of the present study was to analyze the relationship between the
levels of air pollutants and respiratory function/physical efficiency of pre-adolescent children …

The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of air pollution in the dwelling place during
childhood-adolescence on respiratory function in early adulthood. The study was conducted …

The main purpose of our study was to assess the effect of low concentrations of ambient air
pollution on lung function growth in preadolescent children. We accounted for height velocity …

Ambient air pollution impairs lung development in children, particularly in industrialized
areas. The air quality in Zabrze, a city located in the Upper Silesian Industrial Region of …

Background The process of industrialization of the USSR has left a legacy of widespread
and often poorly controlled pollution which is widely believed to have adverse implications …

A one year study on a random sample of 1225 Swiss children aged 0-5 years was
conducted in four different areas (two urban, one suburban and one rural) of Switzerland to …

During the summer of 1994, a cross-sectional epidemiological study, in which the pulmonary
function of children in Tehran was compared with pulmonary function in children in a rural …

Recent studies have found a declining prevalence of respiratory infections in East German
children, along with a tremendous improvement of air pollution since 1990. The present …

INTRODUCTION: Many reports regarding the effects of air pollution on children's respiratory
health have appeared in the scientific literature. Some investigators found increases in …

A multicentre study (Pollution Effects on Asthmatic Children in Europe (PEACE)) project
investigated the relationship between the air pollution and daily variation of respiratory …