Household environmental factors and children's respiratory health: comparison of two cross-sectional studies over 25 years in Wuhan, China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Over the recent decades, residential lifestyle and household environment have changed substantially with rapid development of industrialization and urbanization in China. Whether the prevalence of respiratory diseases changed is still lack of evidence. The objective of this study is to assess potential changes in children's respiratory disease prevalence and associated household environmental factors in Wuhan over a 25-year time interval.

Methods

Two cross-sectional studies in the Period 1 (1993 to 1996) and Period 2 (2017 to 2018) were compared in this research. Elementary school children in period 1 (N=2,517) and in period 2 (N=3,152) were recruited in Wuhan, China. The respiratory health condition, home environmental factors, and family socioeconomic status of

SUBMITTER: Meng X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8339747 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature