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Article: Traffic-related air pollution and otitis media.(Children's Health)
- Article from:
- Environmental Health Perspectives
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
- Author:
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BACKGROUND: Otitis media is one of the most common infections in young children. Although exposure to environmental tobacco smoke is a known risk factor associated with otitis media, little information is available regarding the potential association with air pollution.
OBJECTIVE: We set out to study the relationship between exposure to traffic-related air pollution and otitis media in two birth cohorts.
METHODS: Individual estimates of outdoor concentrations of traffic-related air pollutants--nitrogen dioxide, fine particles [particulate matter with aerodynamic diameters [less than or equal to] 2.5 [micro]m (P[M.sub.2.5])], and elemental carbon--were ...