Residential Area Characteristics Are Associated With Asthma Burden in Children.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Wheezing illnesses, especially those triggered by rhinovirus infection, cause a major disease burden, and they often precede asthma. Environmental exposures are known to affect recurrence of wheezing. We investigated the relations of population density, greenness (forested areas), and socioeconomic factors of the living surroundings to the burden of asthma in children with prior bronchiolitis.

Methods

Three hundred and ninety-four children, aged 0-24 months, with doctor-diagnosed bronchiolitis were enrolled in the MARC-30 Finland study. We assessed the children's early-life exposures to greenness and socioeconomic factors using time-series of Corine Land Cover data and Statistics Finland's grid data. We compared the living surroundings data to the prescription dru

SUBMITTER: Erkkola R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11748105 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature