Heavy vehicle traffic is related to wheeze among schoolchildren: A population-based study in an area with low traffic flows

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Andersson, Martin ^a,b   Modig, Lars ^a   Hedman, Linnea ^b   Forsberg, Bertil ^a   Rönmark, Eva ^a,b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SUNDERBY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN;

ASTHMA; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CHILD HEALTH; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ALLERGIC REACTION; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; EXHAUST GAS; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIZATION; TRAFFIC; WHEEZING; ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; AIR POLLUTION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MALE; PREVALENCE; RHINITIS; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWEDEN;

LULEA; NORRBOTTEN; SWEDEN;

AIR POLLUTION; ASTHMA; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; RHINITIS; RISK FACTORS; SWEDEN; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 80053931791     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-10-91     Document Type: Article

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