Self-reported truck traffic on the street of residence and symptoms of asthma and allergic disease: A global relationship in ISAAC phase 3

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 117, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1791-1798

  Brunekreef, Bert ^a   Stewart, Alistair W ^b   Ross Anderson, H ^c   Lai, Christopher K W ^d   Strachan, David P ^c   Pearce, Neil ^e  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^e MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Asthma; Eczema; Rhinitis; Truck traffic

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AIR POLLUTION; ALLERGIC DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECZEMA; EXPOSURE; GENDER; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RHINOCONJUNCTIVITIS; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF REPORT; TRAFFIC; WHEEZING;

ADOLESCENT; AIR POLLUTANTS; ASTHMA; CHILD; CONJUNCTIVITIS, ALLERGIC; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECZEMA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RHINITIS; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 71149118990     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0800467     Document Type: Article

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