Symptoms and medication use in children with asthma and traffic-related sources of fine particle pollution

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 117, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1168-1174

  Gent, Janneane F ^a   Koutrakis, Petros ^b   Belanger, Kathleen ^a   Triche, Elizabeth ^a   Holford, Theodore R ^a   Bracken, Michael B ^a   Leaderer, Brian P ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood asthma; Fine particle pollution; PM2.5; Respiratory morbidity; Source apportionment; Traffic pollution

Indexed keywords

AIR PARTICLE CONTROL; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHEST TIGHTNESS; CHILD; COUGHING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DUST EXPOSURE; DYSPNEA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FINE PARTICLE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INHALER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR VEHICLE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TRAFFIC; WHEEZING;

ANTI-ASTHMATIC AGENTS; ASTHMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 67650904774     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0800335     Document Type: Article

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