Traffic related air pollution and the burden of childhood asthma in the contiguous United States in 2000 and 2010

Traffic related air pollution and the burden of childhood asthma in the contiguous United States in 2000 and 2010

Asthma is one of the leading chronic airway diseases among children in the United States (US). Emerging evidence indicates that Traffic Related Air Pollution (TRAP), as opposed to ambient air pollution, leads to the onset of childhood asthma. We estimated the number of incident asthma cases among ch...

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Veröffentlicht in:Environment international 2019-06, Vol.127, p.858-867
Hauptverfasser: Alotaibi, Raed, Bechle, Mathew, Marshall, Julian D., Ramani, Tara, Zietsman, Josias, Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J., Khreis, Haneen
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Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Asthma
Burden of disease
Children
Traffic related air pollution
United States
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Zusammenfassung:Asthma is one of the leading chronic airway diseases among children in the United States (US). Emerging evidence indicates that Traffic Related Air Pollution (TRAP), as opposed to ambient air pollution, leads to the onset of childhood asthma. We estimated the number of incident asthma cases among children attributable to TRAP in the contiguous US, for the years 2000 and 2010. The number of incident childhood asthma cases and percentage due to TRAP were estimated using standard burden of disease assessment methods. We combined children (
ISSN:0160-4120
1873-6750
DOI:10.1016/j.envint.2019.03.041