Traffic-related Air Pollution near Busy Roads

Traffic-related air pollution near busy roads: the East Bay Children's Respiratory Health Study.

Recent studies, primarily in Europe, have reported associations between respiratory symptoms and residential proximity to traffic; however, few have measured traffic pollutants or provided information about local air quality. We conducted a school-based, cross-sectional study in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2001. Information on current bronchitis symptoms and asthma, home environment, and demo...

Traffic-related air pollution and brain development

Automotive traffic-related air pollution (TRP) imposes an increasing health burden with global urbanization. Gestational and early child exposure to urban TRP is associated with higher risk of autism spectrum disorders and schizophrenia, as well as low birth weight. While cardio-respiratory effects from exposure are well documented, cognitive effects are only recently becoming widely recognized...

[Perinatal mortality and traffic-related air pollution].

A saúde infantil, que tem como principal indicador o coeficiente de mortalidade infantil, constitui-se ainda em um importante problema de saúde pública em escala mundial. Uma das Metas de Desenvolvimento do Milênio (Millenium Development Goals – MDG), estabelecidas pelos países e organizações internacionais, é a redução da mortalidade em menores de cinco anos em dois terços no período de 1990 a...

Can traffic-related air pollution cause asthma?

Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Childhood Asthma

Assuming an average latency of 42 years, the authors predict that incidence rates will peak in 2009 and that diagnoses will peak in 2014. However, they caution that ongoing use of chrysotile asbestos (which has been implicated but not conclusively established as a cause of mesothelioma) and the release of asbestos fibers from older buildings during demolition or reno­ vation may slow the projec...