Early exposure to traffic-related air pollution, respiratory symptoms at 4 years of age, and potential effect modification by parental allergy, stressful family events, and sex: A prospective follow-up study of the Paris birth cohort

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 737-745

  Rancière, Fanny ^a,b   Bougas, Nicolas ^a   Viola, Malika ^a   Momas, Isabelle ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b Direction de l Action Sociale de l Enfance et de la Santé   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN OXIDE; EXHAUST GAS;

ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; COUGHING; ECZEMA; EXHAUST GAS; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOME; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MATERNAL SMOKING; MEDICAL HISTORY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY TRACT ALLERGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; STRESS; WHEEZING; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FRANCE; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MENTAL STRESS; ODDS RATIO; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AIR POLLUTION; ASTHMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PARIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 84994531692     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/EHP239     Document Type: Article

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