Chronic effects of air pollution on respiratory health in Southern California children: findings from the Southern California Children's Health Study.

ABSTRACT: Outdoor air pollution is one of the leading contributors to adverse respiratory health outcomes in urban areas around the world. Children are highly sensitive to the adverse effects of air pollution due to their rapidly growing lungs, incomplete immune and metabolic functions, patterns of ventilation and high levels of outdoor activity. The Children's Health Study (CHS) is a continuing series of longitudinal studies that first began in 1993 and has focused on demonstrating the chronic impacts of air pollution on respiratory illnesses from early childhood through adolescence. A large body of evidence from the CHS has documented that exposures to both regional ambient air and traffic-related pollutants are associated with increased asthma prevalence, new-onset asthma, risk of bronchitis and

SUBMITTER: Chen Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4311073 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature