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EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL
Volume 49, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY SOC JOURNALS LTD
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.02112-2015
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- Instituto de Salud Carlos III [Red INMA G03/176, CB06/02/0041, FIS-PI06/0867, FIS-PS09/00090, FIS PI13/02187, PI041436, PI081151]
- Spanish Ministry of Health [FIS-FEDER PI042018, PI09/02311, PI13/02429]
- Obra Social Cajastur/Fundacion Liberbank
- University of Oviedo
- Department of Health of the Basque Government [2005111093, 2009111069, 2013111089]
- Provincial Government of Gipuzkoa [DFG06/004, DFG08/001]
- Generalitat de Catalunya CIRIT [1999SGR 00241]
- Fundacio La marato de TV3 [090430]
- European Union [FP7-ENV-2011, 282957, HEALTH.2010.2.4.5-1]
- FIS-FEDER [03/1615, 04/1509, 04/1112, 04/1931, 05/1079, 05/1052, 06/1213, 07/0314, 09/02647, 11/0178, 11/01007, 11/02591, 11/02038, 13/1944, 13/2032, 14/0891, 14/1687]
- Conselleria de Sanitat, Generalitat Valenciana
- European Respiratory Society Fellowship [RESPIRE2-2015-7251]
- Marie Curie Individual Fellowship [MSCA-IF-2016]
- Ramon y Cajal fellowship - Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [RYC-2012-10995]
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We assessed the effect of three different indices of urban built environment on allergic and respiratory conditions. This study involved 2472 children participating in the ongoing INMA birth cohort located in two biogeographic regions (Euro-Siberian and Mediterranean) in Spain. Residential surrounding built environment was characterised as 1) residential surrounding greenness based on satellite-derived normalised difference vegetation index (NDVI), 2) residential proximity to green spaces and 3) residential surrounding greyness based on urban land use patterns. Information on wheezing, bronchitis, asthma and allergic rhinitis up to age 4 years was obtained from parent-completed questionnaires. Logistic regression and generalised estimating equation modelling were performed. Among children from the Euro-Siberian region, higher residential surrounding greenness and higher proximity to green spaces were negatively associated with wheezing. In the Mediterranean region, higher residential proximity to green spaces was associated with a reduced risk for bronchitis. A higher amount of residential surrounding greyness was found to increase the risk for bronchitis in this region. Associations between indices of urban residential greenness and greyness with respiratory diseases differ by region. The pathways underlying these associations require further exploration.
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