Ultrafine particles and black carbon personal exposures in asthmatic and non-asthmatic children at school age.
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Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) exposure during childhood is associated with asthma; however, the contribution of the different TRAP pollutants in each microenvironment (home, school, transportation, others) in asthmatic and non-asthmatic children is unknown. Daily (24-h) personal black carbon (BC), ultrafine particle (UFP), and alveolar lung-deposited surface area (LDSA) individual exposure measurements were obtained from 100 children (29 past and 21 current asthmatics, 50 non-asthmatics) aged 9±0.7 years from the INMA-Sabadell cohort (Catalonia, Spain). Time spent in each microenvironment was derived by the geolocation provided by the smartphone and a new spatiotemporal map-matching algorithm. Asthmatics and non-asthmatics spent the same amount of time at home (60% and 61%, respectively), at school (20% and 23%), on transportation (8% and 7%), and in other microenvironments (7% and 5%). The highest concentrations of all TRAPs were attributed to transportation. No differences in TRAP concentrations were found overall or by type of microenvironment between asthmatics and non-asthmatics, nor when considering past and current asthmatics, separately. In conclusion, asthmatic and non-asthmatic children had a similar time-activity pattern and similar average exposures to BC, UFP, and LDSA concentrations. This suggests that interventions should be tailored to general population, rather than to subgroups defined by disease.
Date Issued
2017-04-26
Date Acceptance
2017-03-13
Citation
Indoor Air, 2017, 27 (5), pp.891-899
ISSN
0905-6947
Publisher
Wiley
Start Page
891
End Page
899
Journal / Book Title
Indoor Air
Volume
27
Issue
5
Copyright Statement
© 2017 John Wiley & Sons A/S. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is the accepted version of the following article: Pañella P, Casas M, Donaire-Gonzalez D, et al. Ultrafine particles and black carbon personal exposures in asthmatic and non-asthmatic children at school age. Indoor Air. 2017;00:1–9. https://doi.org/10.1111/ina.12382, which has been published in final form at https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ina.12382
Sponsor
Commission of the European Communities
Grant Number
308610
Subjects
asthma
black carbon
children
microenvironments
personal monitoring
ultrafine particles
04 Earth Sciences
09 Engineering
11 Medical And Health Sciences
Building & Construction
Publication Status
Published