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Significant association between outdoor NO2 and respiratory symptoms in preschool children |
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| Authors: | Rutishauser M. Ackermann U. Braun Ch. Gnehm H. P. Wanner H. U. |
| Affiliation: | 1.Children’s Hospital, Basel ;3.Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Basel, Switzerland ;4.Children’s Hospital, Zurich ;5.Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland ; |
| Abstract: | A study on 1225 preschool children was conducted in four regions of Switzerland with different levels of air pollution to investigate the relationship between air pollution and respiratory symptoms. Daily symptoms were recorded by parents on a diary form and air pollution exposure assessed by personal NO2 samplers. Each family participated for 6 weeks and personal samplers were changed every week. The frequency of respiratory symptoms per child and day was found to increase with increasing levels of NO2 measured outdoors. This relationship remained significant in a multiple regression model in which the factors smoking, origin, indoor air pollution, age and sex, season, and parents appreciation of air pollution at the living site were taken into account. |
| Keywords: | Personal NO2 samplers Respiratory symptoms, frequency Indoor air pollution |
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