Air pollution from biomass burning and asthma hospital admissions in a sugar cane plantation area in Brazil

Abdo Arbex, Marcos; Conceição Martins, Lourdes; Carvalho de Oliveira, Regiani; Alberto Amador Pereira, Luiz; F. Arbex, Flávio; Eduardo Delfini Cançado, José; Hilário Nascimento Saldiva, Paulo; Luı́s Ferreira Braga, Alfésio

doi:10.1136/jech.2005.044743

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Air pollution from biomass burning and asthma hospital admissions in a sugar cane plantation area in Brazil

Published in Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health • Apr 13, 2007

Authors:

Marcos Abdo Arbex

Lourdes Conceição Martins

Regiani Carvalho de Oliveira

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association between the total suspended particles (TSPs) generated from preharvest sugar cane burning and hospital admission due to asthma (asthma hospital admissions) in the city of Araraquara. DESIGN: An ecological time-series study. Total daily records of asthma hospita...

Subject

Medicine

Asthma

Poisson regression

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