Residential air pollution and associations with wheeze and shortness of breath in adults: A combined analysis of cross-sectional data from two large European cohorts

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 125, Issue 9, 2017, Pages

  Doiron, Dany ^a,b,c   de Hoogh, Kees ^b,c   Probst Hensch, Nicole ^b,c   Mbatchou, Stéphane ^a   Eeftens, Marloes ^d   Cai, Yutong ^e   Schindler, Christian ^b,c   Fortier, Isabel ^a   Hodgson, Susan ^e   Gaye, Amadou ^f   Stolk, Ronald ^g   Hansell, Anna ^e  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN DIOXIDE; AIR POLLUTANT; EXHAUST GAS;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPNEA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EUROPEAN; FEMALE; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SMOKING; WHEEZING; YOUNG ADULT; ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; ANALYSIS; EUROPE; EXHAUST GAS; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DYSPNEA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; RISK FACTORS; VEHICLE EMISSIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85032168430     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/EHP1353     Document Type: Article

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