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Title: Traffic related air pollution and the burden of childhood asthma in the contiguous United States in 2000 and 2010

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2019

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2019.03.041

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Abstract: Background Asthma is one of the leading chronic airway diseases among children in the United States (US). Emerging evidence indicates that Traffic Related Air Pollution (TRAP), as opposed to ambient air pollution, leads to the onset of childhood asthma. We estimated the number of incident asthma cases among children attributable to TRAP in the contiguous US, for the years 2000 and 2010. Methods The number of incident childhood asthma cases and percentage due to TRAP were estimated using standard burden of disease assessment methods. We combined children (<18 years) counts and pollutant exposures at populated US census blocks with a national asthma incidence rate and meta-analysis derived concentration response functions (CRF). NO2, PM2.5 and PM10 were used as surrogates of TRAP exposures, with NO2 being most specific. Annual average concentrations were obtained from previously validated land-use regression (LUR) models. Asthma incidence rate and a CRF for each pollutant were obtained from the literature. Estimates were stratified by urban or rural living and by median household income. We also estimated the number of preventable cases among blocks that exceeded the limit for two counterfactual scenarios. The first scenario used the recommended air quality annual averages from the World . . .

Url: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412018325388

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Authors: Alotaibi, Raed; Bechle, Mathew; Marshall, Julian D.; Ramani, Tara; Zietsman, Josias; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Khreis, Haneen

Periodical (Full): Environmental International

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Volume: 127

Pages: 858-867

Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Health, Other, Population Health and Health Systems

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