Ambient wood smoke, traffic pollution and adult asthma prevalence and severity

Respirology

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1101-1107

  Bui, D Son ^a   Burgess, John A ^a   Matheson, Melanie C ^a   Erbas, Bircan ^b   Perret, Jennifer ^a   Morrison, Stephen ^e   Giles, Graham G ^a,c,d   Hopper, John L ^a   Thomas, Paul S ^f   Markos, James ^g   Abramson, Michael J ^d   Walters, E Haydn ^h   Dharmage, Shyamali C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^g LAUNCESTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

adult asthma; ambient wood smoke; atopic status; severity; traffic pollution

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; AMBIENT WOOD SMOKE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPY; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXHAUST GAS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOME; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SMOKE; TRAFFIC; TRAFFIC NOISE; WOOD;

ADULT ASTHMA; AMBIENT WOOD SMOKE; ATOPIC STATUS; SEVERITY; TRAFFIC POLLUTION;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; ASTHMA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SMOKE; TASMANIA; VEHICLE EMISSIONS; WOOD;

EID: 84884871792     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: 14401843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/resp.12108     Document Type: Article

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