The East Bay Diesel Exposure Project: a biomonitoring study of parents and their children in heavily impacted communities.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Diesel exhaust (DE) exposures pose concerns for serious health effects, including asthma and lung cancer, in California communities burdened by multiple stressors.

Objective

To evaluate DE exposures in disproportionately impacted communities using biomonitoring and compare results for adults and children within and between families.

Methods

We recruited 40 families in the San Francisco East Bay area. Two metabolites of 1-nitropyrene (1-NP), a marker for DE exposures, were measured in urine samples from parent-child pairs. For 25 families, we collected single-day spot urine samples during two sampling rounds separated by an average of four months. For the 15 other families, we collected daily spot urine samples over four consecutive days during the two sampl

SUBMITTER: Sultana D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11446841 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature