Pollen concentration and asthma exacerbations in Wake County, North Carolina, 2006-2012

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 544, Issue , 2016, Pages 185-191

  Sun, Xuezheng ^a   Waller, Anna ^b   Yeatts, Karin B ^a   Thie, Lauren ^c  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; Distributed lag nonlinear model; Pollen concentration

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; TREES (MATHEMATICS); WAKES;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ALLERGIC DISEASE; AMBIENT CONCENTRATIONS; ASTHMA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DELAYED EFFECTS; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS; NON-LINEAR MODEL;

DISEASES;

ALLERGY; ASTHMA; BIOACCUMULATION; DISEASE CONTROL; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLEN; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GRASS POLLEN; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLLEN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREE POLLEN; UNITED STATES; WEED POLLEM; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; NORTH CAROLINA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES; WAKE COUNTY;

AIR POLLUTANT; ALLERGEN;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ALLERGENS; ASTHMA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MALE; NORTH CAROLINA; POLLEN;

EID: 84949189456     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.11.100     Document Type: Article

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