Residential exposure to motor vehicle emissions and the risk of wheezing among 7-8 year-old schoolchildren: A city-wide cross-sectional study in Nicosia, Cyprus

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Middleton, Nicos ^a   Yiallouros, Panayiotis ^a   Nicolaou, Nicolaos ^b   Kleanthous, Savvas ^c   Pipis, Spiros ^a   Zeniou, Maria ^a   Demokritou, Philip ^d   Koutrakis, Petros ^d  

^a CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

^b WYTHENSHAWE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Labor Inspection ^*  (Cyprus)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN OXIDE;

CHILD HEALTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HEALTH RISK; HEALTH SURVEY; IRRADIATION; LIFESTYLE; METROPOLITAN AREA; MORBIDITY; NITROGEN OXIDES; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; STUDENT; SYMPTOM; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CYPRUS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXHAUST GAS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR VEHICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENTIAL AREA; RISK; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF REPORT; WHEEZING; ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG EFFECT; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR;

CYPRUS; NICOSIA [CYPRUS];

ASTHMA; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CYPRUS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NITROGEN OXIDES; ODDS RATIO; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; RISK FACTORS; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 77953633115     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-9-28     Document Type: Article

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