Effects of particulate air pollution on nasal and lung function development among Greek children: A 19-year cohort study

International Journal of Environmental Health Research

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 480-489

  Spyratos, Dionisios ^a   Sioutas, Constantinos ^b   Tsiotsios, Anastasios ^a   Haidich, Anna Bettina ^a   Chloros, Diamantis ^a   Triantafyllou, Georgios ^a   Sichletidis, Lazaros ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

air pollution; children; prospective study; rhinomanometry; spirometry

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CHILD HEALTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); PARTICULATE MATTER; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; SYMPTOM;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GREECE; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE DOSE; NOSE AIRFLOW; NOSE OBSTRUCTION; PARTICULATE MATTER; QUESTIONNAIRE; RHINOMANOMETRY; SCHOOL CHILD; SPIROMETRY; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; BREATHING; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LUNG; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES;

GREECE; GREVENA; KOZANI; PTOLEMAIS; WESTERN MACEDONIA;

AIR POLLUTANT; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREECE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES;

EID: 84938995822     PISSN: 09603123     EISSN: 13691619     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09603123.2014.979775     Document Type: Article

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