Ambient Particulate Air Pollution, Environmental Tobacco Smoking, and Childhood Asthma: Interactions and Biological Mechanisms

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• Personal Author:
  Baccarelli A ; Kaufman JD
• Description:
  The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 24% of the global burden of disease is caused by environmental factors that can be averted. Understanding the role of the environment in asthma is a natural ambition in the overall search to understand environmental burdens: In an individual expressing the asthmatic phenotype, worsening of asthma control is logically related to environmental agents, and the airways are directly exposed to environmental challenges. As much as 44% of the asthma disease burden has been attributed to mitigable environmental risk factors, as opposed to genetic/familial factors or risk factors such as outdoor exposure to pollens (deemed not modifiable). [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollution Asthma Asthma, Occupational Environment Environmental Exposure Environmental Pollution Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety
• Keywords:
  Air Pollution Children Environmental Factors Environmental Pollution Risk Factors
• ISSN:
  1073-449X
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 10 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  184
• Issue:
  12
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20054885
• Citation:
  Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2011 Dec; 184(12):1325-1327
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2012
• Performing Organization:
  University of Washington
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
• End Date:
  20250630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/217299/cdc_217299_DS1.pdf
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