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A prospective study of the impact of air pollution on respiratory symptoms and infections in infants
JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift)
 
ID 2017612
Author(s) Stern, Georgette; Latzin, Philipp; Röösli, Martin; Fuchs, Oliver; Proietti, Elena; Kuehni, Claudia; Frey, Urs
Author(s) at UniBasel Röösli, Martin
Year 2013
Title A prospective study of the impact of air pollution on respiratory symptoms and infections in infants
Journal American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine : an official journal of the American Thoracic Society
Volume 187
Number 12
Pages / Article-Number 1341-8
Keywords birth cohort, respiratory tract infections, air pollution, healthy infants, lung function
Abstract

Rationale: There is increasing evidence that short-term exposure to air pollution has a detrimental effect on respiratory health, but data from healthy populations, particularly infants, are scarce. Objectives: To assess the association of air pollution with frequency and severity of respiratory symptoms and infections measured weekly in healthy infants. Methods: In a prospective birth cohort of 366 infants of unselected mothers, respiratory health was assessed weekly by telephone interviews during the first year of life (19,106 total observations). Daily mean levels of particulate matter (PM10), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and ozone (O3) were obtained from local monitoring stations. We determined the association of the preceding week's pollutant levels with symptom scores and respiratory tract infections using a generalized additive mixed model with an autoregressive component. In addition, we assessed whether neonatal lung function influences this association and whether duration of infectious episodes differed between weeks with normal PM10 and weeks with elevated levels. Measurements and Main Results: We found a significant association between air pollution and respiratory symptoms, particularly in the week after respiratory tract infections (risk ratio, 1.13 [1.02-1.24] per 10 μg/m(3) PM10 levels) and in infants with premorbid lung function. During times of elevated PM10 (>33.3 μg/m(3)), duration of respiratory tract infections increased by 20% (95% confidence interval, 2-42%). Conclusions: Exposure to even moderate levels of air pollution was associated with increased respiratory symptoms in healthy infants. Particularly in infants with premorbid lung function and inflammation, air pollution contributed to longer duration of infectious episodes with a potentially large socioeconomic impact.

Publisher HighWire Press
ISSN/ISBN 0003-0805
edoc-URL http://edoc.unibas.ch/dok/A6164972
Full Text on edoc No
Digital Object Identifier DOI 10.1164/rccm.201211-2008OC
PubMed ID http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23594341
ISI-Number WOS:000320362600013
Document type (ISI) Journal Article
 
   

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