Asthma and Air Pollution in Two Inner City Areas in New York City
| Autor: | Gloria Block, Inge F. Goldstein |
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| Rok vydání: | 1974 |
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Male Emergency rooms Environmental Engineering Air pollution medicine.disease_cause Preliminary analysis Sex Factors Inner city Sex factors Air Pollution Environmental health medicine Humans Sulfur Dioxide Child Weather General Environmental Science Asthma business.industry Environmental Exposure Environmental exposure medicine.disease Pollution General Earth and Planetary Sciences Female New York City Day to day business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the Air Pollution Control Association. 24:665-670 |
| ISSN: | 0002-2470 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00022470.1974.10469954 |
| Popis: | The preliminary analysis of four months of emergency room visits for asthma in two inner city areas containing populations of similar socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic compositions, with similar day to day weather conditions but differing in their day to day levels of air pollution was made, and the relationship of visits to emergency rooms to daily temperature and air pollution levels measured in the areas, are described. In Harlem no relationship between daily visits to emergency rooms and daily levels of either smokeshade or sulfur dioxide have been observed whereas in Brooklyn a relatively strong correlation between daily visits for asthma and daily levels of sulfur dioxide but not with smokeshade have been observed over and above the effect of temperature. In both areas there was a strong relationship between daily visits for asthma and the first cold spells of the fall season. The average male/female ratio for asthma visits to hospital emergency rooms of both areas in the age group under thirteen ye... |
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