Synergistic effects of traffic-related air pollution and exposure to violence on urban asthma etiology

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 115, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1140-1146

  Clougherty, Jane E ^a   Levy, Jonathan I ^a   Kubzansky, Laura D ^a   Ryan, P Barry ^b   Suglia, Shakira Franco ^a   Canner, Marina Jacobson ^c   Wright, Rosalind J ^a,c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood asthma; Exposure to violence (ETV); Geographic information systems (GIS); Intraurban variability; Nitrogen dioxide (NO2); Social environmental synergy; Stress

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN DIOXIDE;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EXHAUST GAS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ASPECT; URBAN AREA; VIOLENCE; AIR POLLUTANT; CITY; MENTAL STRESS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ASTHMA; BOSTON; CHILD; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; URBAN POPULATION; VEHICLE EMISSIONS; VIOLENCE;

EID: 34848902021     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.9863     Document Type: Article

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