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Ambient air pollution and adult asthma incidence in six European cohorts (ESCAPE).

ABSTRACT: Short-term exposure to air pollution has adverse effects among patients with asthma, but whether long-term exposure to air pollution is a cause of adult-onset asthma is unclear.We aimed to investigate the association between air pollution and adult onset asthma.Asthma incidence was prospectively assessed in six European cohorts. Exposures studied were annual average concentrations at home addresses for nitrogen oxides assessed for 23,704 participants (including 1,257 incident cases) and particulate matter (PM) assessed for 17,909 participants through ESCAPE land-use regression models and traffic exposure indicators. Meta-analyses of cohort-specific logistic regression on asthma incidence were performed. Models were adjusted for age, sex, overweight, education, and smoking and included city/area within each cohort as a random effect.In this longitudinal analysis, asthma incidence was positively, but not significantly, associated with all exposure metrics, except for PMcoarse. Positive associations of borderline significance were observed for nitrogen dioxide [adjusted odds ratio (OR) = 1.10; 95% CI: 0.99, 1.21 per 10 ?g/m3; p = 0.10] and nitrogen oxides (adjusted OR = 1.04; 95% CI: 0.99, 1.08 per 20 ?g/m3; p = 0.08). Nonsignificant positive associations were estimated for PM10 (adjusted OR = 1.04; 95% CI: 0.88, 1.23 per 10 ?g/m3), PM2.5 (adjusted OR = 1.04; 95% CI: 0.88, 1.23 per 5 ?g/m3), PM2.5absorbance (adjusted OR = 1.06; 95% CI: 0.95, 1.19 per 10-5/m), traffic load (adjusted OR = 1.10; 95% CI: 0.93, 1.30 per 4 million vehicles × meters/day on major roads in a 100-m buffer), and traffic intensity (adjusted OR = 1.10; 95% CI: 0.93, 1.30 per 5,000 vehicles/day on the nearest road). A nonsignificant negative association was estimated for PMcoarse (adjusted OR = 0.98; 95% CI: 0.87, 1.14 per 5 ?g/m3).Results suggest a deleterious effect of ambient air pollution on asthma incidence in adults. Further research with improved personal-level exposure assessment (vs. residential exposure assessment only) and phenotypic characterization is needed.

SUBMITTER: Jacquemin B

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4455584 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Ambient air pollution and adult asthma incidence in six European cohorts (ESCAPE).

Jacquemin Bénédicte B Siroux Valérie V Sanchez Margaux M Carsin Anne-Elie AE Schikowski Tamara T Adam Martin M Bellisario Valeria V Buschka Anna A Bono Roberto R Brunekreef Bert B Cai Yutong Y Cirach Marta M Clavel-Chapelon Françoise F Declercq Christophe C de Marco Roberto R de Nazelle Audrey A Ducret-Stich Regina E RE Ferretti Virginia Valeria VV Gerbase Margaret W MW Hardy Rebecca R Heinrich Joachim J Janson Christer C Jarvis Deborah D Al Kanaani Zaina Z Keidel Dirk D Kuh Diana D Le Moual Nicole N Nieuwenhuijsen Mark J MJ Marcon Alessandro A Modig Lars L Pin Isabelle I Rochat Thierry T Schindler Christian C Sugiri Dorothea D Stempfelet Morgane M Temam Sofia S Tsai Ming-Yi MY Varraso Raphaëlle R Vienneau Danielle D Vierkötter Andrea A Hansell Anna L AL Krämer Ursula U Probst-Hensch Nicole M NM Sunyer Jordi J Künzli Nino N Kauffmann Francine F

Environmental health perspectives 20150224 6

<h4>Background</h4>Short-term exposure to air pollution has adverse effects among patients with asthma, but whether long-term exposure to air pollution is a cause of adult-onset asthma is unclear.<h4>Objective</h4>We aimed to investigate the association between air pollution and adult onset asthma.<h4>Methods</h4>Asthma incidence was prospectively assessed in six European cohorts. Exposures studied were annual average concentrations at home addresses for nitrogen oxides assessed for 23,704 parti ...[more]

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