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Residential traffic and children's respiratory health [1]

Living near traffic has been associated with asthma and other respiratory symptoms. Most studies, however, have been conducted in areas with high background levels of ambient air pollution, making it challenging to isolate an independent effect of traffic. Additionally, most investigations have used surrogates of exposure, and few have measured traffic pollutants directly as part of the study. The researchers conducted a cross-sectional study of current asthma and other respiratory symptoms in children (n = 1,080) living at varying distances from high-traffic roads in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, a highly urbanized region characterized by good regional air quality due to coastal breezes.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2008
Janice J. Kim [2], Karen Huen [3], Sara Adams & et al [4]
Environmental Health Perspectives [5]
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Tags:
Air Pollution [6], Vehicular Pollution [7], Health Effects [8], Asthma [9], Respiratory Diseases [10], Child Health [11], Environmental Health [12], California [13]
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