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Abstract Title:

Prenatal and postnatal exposures to ambient air pollutants associated with allergies and airway diseases in childhood: A retrospective observational study.

Abstract Source:

Environ Int. 2020 09 ;142:105853. Epub 2020 Jun 22. PMID: 32585502

Abstract Author(s):

Wei Liu, Chen Huang, Jiao Cai, Qingyan Fu, Zhijun Zou, Chanjuan Sun, Jialing Zhang

Article Affiliation:

Wei Liu

Abstract:

It's inconsistent about associations of early exposures to outdoor air pollutants with allergies and airway diseases in childhood. Here, we investigated associations of prenatal and postnatal exposures to outdoor nitrogen dioxide (NO), sulphur dioxide (SO), and PM(particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter ≤ 10 μm) with asthma, wheeze, hay fever, rhinitis, pneumonia, and eczema in childhood. We surveyed 3,177 preschoolers who never change residences since birth in Shanghai, China. Parents reported information regarding children's health status. Daily-averaged concentrations of these pollutantsin the children's gestation and in the first year of lifetime for district where children lived were collected by Shanghai Environmental Monitoring Center. After adjusting for covariates, exposures to higher level of NOduring different trimesters of gestation and of the first year of lifetime had significant associations with the increased odds of asthma, hay fever, rhinitis, pneumonia, and eczema in childhood. Associations of NOexposures in the early trimesters of gestation and of the first year of lifetime with pneumonia were stronger than in the later trimesters, whereas associations of NOexposures in the early trimesters with hay fever and eczema were weaker than in the later trimesters. Our results indicated that prenatal and postnatal exposures to outdoor NOcould be risk factors for allergies and airway diseases in childhood. Both dose and duration were related with the influence degree of early NOexposure on childhood allergies and airway diseases.

Study Type : Human Study

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