Infants' indoor and outdoor residential exposure to benzene and respiratory health in a Spanish cohort

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 222, Issue , 2017, Pages 486-494

  Ferrero, Amparo ^a,b   Esplugues, Ana ^a,b   Estarlich, Marisa ^a,b   Llop, Sabrina ^a,b   Cases, Amparo ^a,b   Mantilla, Enrique ^c   Ballester, Ferran ^a,b   Iñiguez, Carmen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^c FUNDACIÓN CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AMBIENTALES DEL MEDITERRÁNEO CEAM   (Spain)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Benzene; Infant; Respiratory signs and symptoms; Respiratory tract infections

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; HEALTH; HEALTH RISKS; HOUSING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVEYS;

DETERMINANTS OF EXPOSURE; INFANT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELS; RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS; RESPIRATORY SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE; SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC DATA;

BENZENE;

BENZENE; AIR POLLUTANT;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BENZENE; CHILD HEALTH; HEALTH RISK; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPIRATORY DISEASE;

AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; COUGHING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INDOOR RESIDENTIAL EXPOSURE; LIFESTYLE; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MATERNAL AGE; NEWBORN; OUTDOOR RESIDENTIAL EXPOSURE; PARENTAL SMOKING; RESIDENTIAL HOME; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SPAIN; SPRING; SUMMER; TOBACCO CONSUMPTION; URBAN AREA; WHEEZING; WINTER; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HEATING; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; INFANT; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMUNIDAD VALENCIA; SPAIN; VALENCIA [COMUNIDAD VALENCIA];

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; BENZENE; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HEATING; HUMANS; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; SPAIN;

EID: 85008481905     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2016.11.065     Document Type: Article

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