Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES
Volume 117, Issue 11, Pages 1791-1798Publisher
US DEPT HEALTH HUMAN SCIENCES PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0800467
Keywords
air pollution; asthma; eczema; rhinitis; truck traffic
Funding
- Bupa Foundation
- Health Research Council of New Zealand
- Asthma and Respiratory Foundation of New Zealand
- Child Health Research Foundation
- Hawke's Bay Medical Research Foundation
- Waikato Medical Research Foundation
- Glaxo Wellcome New Zealand
- New Zealand Lottery Grants Board
- Astra-Zeneca New Zealand
- Glaxo Wellcome International Medical Affairs
- MRC [G0801056] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [G0801056] Funding Source: researchfish
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BACKGROUND: Associations between traffic pollution on the street of residence and a range of respiratory and allergic outcomes in children have been reported in developed countries, but little is known about such associations in developing countries. METHODS: The third phase of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) was carried out in 13- to 14-year-old and 6- to 7-year-old children across the world. A question about frequency of truck traffic on the street of residence was included in an additional questionnaire. We investigated the association between self-reported truck traffic on the street of residence and symptoms of asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis, and eczema with logistic regression. Adjustments were made for sex, region of the world, language, gross national income, and 10 other subject-specific covariates. RESULTS: Frequency of truck traffic on the street of residence was positively associated with the prevalence of symptoms of asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis, and eczema with an exposure-response relationship. Odds ratios (95% confidence intervals) for current wheeze and almost the whole day versus never truck traffic were 1.35 (1.23-1.49) for 13- to 14-year-olds and 1.35 (1.22-1.48) for 6- to 7-year-olds. CONCLUSIONS: Higher exposure to self-reported truck traffic on the street of residence is associated with increased reports of symptoms of asthma, rhinitis, and eczema in many locations in the world. These findings require further investigation in view of increasing exposure of the world's children to traffic.
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