Urban land-use and respiratory symptoms in infants.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Children's respiratory health has been linked to many factors, including air pollution. The impacts of urban land-use on health are not fully understood, although these relationships are of key importance given the growing populations living in urban environments.

Objectives

We investigated whether the degree of urban land-use near a family's residence is associated with severity of respiratory symptoms like wheeze among infants.

Methods

Wheeze occurrence was recorded for the first year of life for 680 infants in Connecticut for 1996-1998 from a cohort at risk for asthma development. Land-use categories were obtained from the National Land Cover Database. The fraction of urban land-use near each subject's home was related to severity of wheeze symptoms usin

SUBMITTER: Ebisu K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3114197 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature