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Air pollution and airway resistance at age 8 years – the PIAMA birth cohort study

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Title
Air pollution and airway resistance at age 8 years – the PIAMA birth cohort study
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Environmental Health, July 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12940-018-0407-9
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Isabelle Finke, Johan C. de Jongste, Henriette A. Smit, Alet H. Wijga, Gerard H. Koppelman, Judith Vonk, Bert Brunekreef, Ulrike Gehring

Abstract

Air pollution has been found to adversely affect children's lung function. Forced expiratory volume in 1 s and forced vital capacity from spirometry have been studied most frequently, but measurements of airway resistance may provide additional information. We assessed associations of long-term air pollution exposure with airway resistance. We measured airway resistance at age 8 with the interrupter resistance technique (Rint) in participants of the Dutch PIAMA birth cohort study. We linked Rint with estimated annual average air pollution concentrations [nitrogen oxides (NO2, NOx), PM2.5 absorbance ("soot"), and particulate matter < 2.5 μm (PM2.5), < 10 μm (PM10) and 2.5-10 μm (PMcoarse)] at the birth address and current home address (n = 983). Associations between air pollution exposure and interrupter resistance (Rint) were assessed using multiple linear regression adjusting for potential confounders. We found that higher levels of NO2 at the current address were associated with higher Rint [adj. mean difference (95% confidence interval) per interquartile range increase in NO2: 0.018 (0.001, 0.035) kPa·s·L- 1]. Similar trends were observed for the other pollutants, except, PM10. No association was found between Rint and exposure at the birth address. Our results support the hypothesis that air pollution exposure is associated with a lower lung function in schoolchildren.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 13%
Student > Master 6 13%
Researcher 4 9%
Student > Postgraduate 2 4%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 4%
Other 4 9%
Unknown 21 47%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 9 20%
Environmental Science 5 11%
Engineering 2 4%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 2%
Other 6 13%
Unknown 20 44%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 July 2018.
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#15,329,446
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#1,104
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#180,678
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#13
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