PMID: 8597731Mar 16, 1996Paper

Association between air pollution and acute childhood wheezy episodes: prospective observational study

BMJ : British Medical Journal
R BuchdahlA Babiker

Abstract

To examine the association between the air pollutants ozone, sulphur dioxide, and nitrogen dioxide and the incidence of acute childhood wheezy episodes. Prospective observational study over one year. District general hospital. 1025 children attending the accident and emergency department with acute wheezy episodes; 4285 children with other conditions as the control group. Daily incidence of acute wheezy episodes. After seasonal adjustment, day to day variations in daily average concentrations of ozone and sulphur dioxide were found to have significant associations with the incidence of acute wheezy episodes. The strongest association was with ozone, for which a non-linear U shaped relation was seen. In terms of the incidence rate ratio (1 at a mean 24 hour ozone concentration of 40 microg/m3 (SD=19.1)), children were more likely to attend when the concentration was two standard deviations below the mean (incidence rate ratio=3.01; 95% confidence interval 2.17 to 4.18) or two standard deviations above the mean (1.34; 1.09 to 1.66). Sulphur dioxide had a weaker log-linear relation with incidence (1.12; 1.05 to 1.19 for each standard deviation (14.1) increase in sulphur dioxide concentration). Further adjustment for temperature an...Continue Reading

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