Air Pollution and Respiratory Infections during Early Childhood: An Analysis of 10 European Birth Cohorts within the ESCAPE Project

MacIntyre, Elaina; Gehring, Ulrike; Mölter, Anna; Fuertes, Elaine; Klümper, Claudia; Krämer, Ursula; Quaß, Ulrich; Hoffmann, Barbara; Gascón, Mireia; Brunekreef, Bert; H. Koppelman, Gerard; Beelen, Rob; Hoek, Gerard; Birk, Matthias; C. de Jongste, Johan; A. Smit, Henriëtte; Cyrys, Josef; Gruzieva, Olena; Korek, Michal; Bergström, Anna; Agius, Raymond; de Vocht, Frank; Simpson, Angela; Porta, Daniela; Forastiere, Francesco; Badaloní, Chiara; Cesaroni, Giulia; Esplugues, Ana; Fernández‐Somoano, Ana; Lerxundi, Aitana; Sunyer, Jordi; Cirach, Marta; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark; Pershagen, Göran; Heinrich, Joachim

doi:10.1289/ehp.1306755

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Air Pollution and Respiratory Infections during Early Childhood: An Analysis of 10 European Birth Cohorts within the ESCAPE Project

Published in Environmental Health Perspectives • Oct 23, 2013

Authors:

Elaina MacIntyre

Ulrike Gehring

Anna Mölter

Abstract

Background: Few studies have investigated traffic-related air pollution as a risk factor for respiratory infections during early childhood.Objectives: We aimed to investigate the association between air pollution and pneumonia, croup, and otitis media in 10 European birth cohorts—BAMSE (Sweden), GAS...

Subject

Otitis

Medicine

Croup

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