Air Pollution and Respiratory Infections during Early Childhood: An Analysis of 10 European Birth Cohorts within the ESCAPE Project

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Elaina MacIntyre · Helmholtz Zentrum München

Ulrike Gehring · Utrecht University

Anna Mölter · Manchester Academic Health Science Centre

Elaine Fuertes · University of British Columbia

Claudia Klümper · Leibniz Institute of Environmental Medicine

Ursula Krämer · Leibniz Institute of Environmental Medicine

Ulrich Quaß

Abstract

Our meta-analysis of 10 European birth cohorts within the ESCAPE project found consistent evidence for an association between air pollution and pneumonia in early childhood, and some evidence for an association with otitis media.

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Air Quality and Health Impacts Noise Effects and Management Health disparities and outcomes

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Published in: Environmental Health Perspectives

Volume 122, Issue 1, pp. 107-113

DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1306755

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