Regional PM2.5 and asthma morbidity in an agricultural community: A panel study

Environmental Research

Volumn 136, Issue , 2015, Pages 505-512

  Loftus, Christine ^a   Yost, Michael ^a   Sampson, Paul ^a   Arias, Griselda ^b   Torres, Elizabeth ^c   Vasquez, Victoria Breckwich ^a   Bhatti, Parveen ^a   Karr, Catherine ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Yakima Valley Farmworker's Clinic   (United States)

^c Northwest Education Center Radio KDNA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural air quality; Asthma exacerbations; Pediatric asthma; PM2.5; Rural asthma

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ASTHMA; FARMING SYSTEM; MORBIDITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PLANT COMMUNITY;

AGRICULTURE; AIR MONITORING; AIR QUALITY; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DYSPNEA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PANEL STUDY; PARTICULATE MATTER; WHEEZING; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COHORT ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

PARTICULATE MATTER;

AGRICULTURE; ASTHMA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PARTICULATE MATTER; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; WASHINGTON;

EID: 84912118662     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2014.10.030     Document Type: Article

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