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Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med., Volume 159, Number 3, March 1999, 760-767

A Study of Twelve Southern California Communities with Differing Levels and Types of Air Pollution
I. Prevalence of Respiratory Morbidity

JOHN M. PETERS, EDWARD AVOL, WILLIAM NAVIDI, STEPHANIE J. LONDON, W. JAMES GAUDERMAN, FRED LURMANN, WILLIAM S. LINN, HELENE MARGOLIS, EDWARD RAPPAPORT, HENRY GONG Jr., and DUNCAN C. THOMAS

Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles; Air Resources Board, State of California, Sacramento; Sonoma Technology Inc., Petaluma, California; and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

To study possible chronic respiratory effects of air pollutants, we initiated a 10-yr prospective cohort study of Southern California children, with a study design focused on four pollutants: ozone, particulate matter, acids, and nitrogen dioxide (NO2). Twelve demographically similar communities were selected on the basis of historic monitoring information to represent extremes of exposure to one or more pollutants. In each community, about 150 public school students in grade 4, 75 in grade 7, and 75 in grade 10 were enrolled through their classrooms. Informed consent and written responses to surveys about students' lifetime residential histories, historic and current health status, residential characteristics, and physical activity were obtained with the help of the parents. In the first testing season, 3,676 students returned questionnaires. We confirmed associations previously reported between respiratory morbidity prevalence and the presence of personal, demographic, and residential risk factors. Rates of respiratory illness were higher for males, those living in houses with pets, pests, mildew, and water damage, those whose parents had asthma, and those living in houses with smokers. Wheeze prevalence was positively associated with levels of both acid (odds ratio [OR] = 1.45; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.14-1.83) and NO2 (OR = 1.54; 95% CI, 1.08-2.19) in boys. We conclude, based on this cross-sectional assessment of questionnaire responses, that current levels of ambient air pollution in Southern California may be associated with effects on schoolchildren's respiratory morbidity as assessed by questionnaire.




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