The influence of living near roadways on spirometry and exhaled nitric oxide in elementary schoolchildren

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 116, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1423-1427

  Dales, Robert ^a,b,e   Wheeler, Amanda ^c   Mahmud, Mamun ^b   Frescura, Anna Maria ^d   Smith Doiron, Marc ^b   Nethery, Elizabeth ^c   Liu, Ling ^b  

^a OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^c Water Air and Climate Change Bureau   (Canada)

^d PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Environment; Nitric oxide; Respiratory system; Spirometry

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE;

AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; BREATH ANALYSIS; CHILD HEALTH CARE; ELEMENTARY STUDENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXHALATION; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SPIROMETRY; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; AIR POLLUTANT; CHILD; DRUG EFFECT; LUNG; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY;

AIR POLLUTANTS; BREATH TESTS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE; PARTICLE SIZE; SPIROMETRY;

EID: 55949106823     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.10943     Document Type: Article

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