Personal Exposures to Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Acute Respiratory Health among Bronx Schoolchildren with Asthma

Ariel Spira-Cohen, Lung‐Chi Chen, Michaela Kendall, Ramona Lall, George D. Thurston

Environmental Health Perspectives · 2011 · 180 citations · 40 references

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Abstract

Adverse health associations were strongest with personal measures of EC exposure, suggesting that the diesel "soot" fraction of PM(2.5) is most responsible for pollution-related asthma exacerbations among children living near roadways. Studies that rely on exposure to PM mass may underestimate PM health impacts.

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