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Do the maxima of air pollutants coincide with the incedence of childhood asthma in Athens, Greece?View Crossref metadata(active tab) <div id="edit-xml" class="form-item form-type-item"> <?xml version="1.0"?> <doi_batch version="4.4.1" xmlns="http://www.crossref.org/schema/4.4.1" xmlns:jats="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/JATS1" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.crossref.org/schema/4.4.1 http://www.crossref.org/schemas/crossref4.4.1.xsd"><head><doi_batch_id>000689</doi_batch_id><timestamp>1713426926</timestamp><depositor><depositor_name>University of the Aegean</depositor_name><email_address>uoa@university.com</email_address></depositor><registrant>Global NEST Journal</registrant></head><body><journal><journal_metadata><full_title>Global NEST Journal</full_title><full_title>Global NEST: the international Journal</full_title><issn media_type="print">1790-7632</issn><issn media_type="electronic">2241-777X</issn></journal_metadata><journal_issue><titles><title>Issue 3</title></titles><publication_date><month>11</month><year>2024</year></publication_date><journal_volume><volume>10</volume></journal_volume><issue>3</issue></journal_issue><journal_article><titles><title>Do the maxima of air pollutants coincide with the incedence of childhood asthma in Athens, Greece?</title></titles><abstract xmlns="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/JATS1"><p>In the present study an assessment of the influence of the ambient air pollution on the incidence of the Childhood Asthma Admissions (CAA) is attempted by using cross spectrum analysis. The medical data concern the hospital registries of the three main Children’s Hospitals of Athens for the 14-year period, 1987-2000. The air pollution data used in this study were mean monthly concentrations of CO, Black Smoke (BS), NOx, SO2, and O3, averaged over all the available stations, for each air pollutant, in the network of the Greek Ministry of the Environment, Physical Planning and Public Works (GMEPPPW) for the aforementioned 14-year period. The performed analysis revealed that a pronounced seasonal variation of asthma exacerbation among Athenian children does exist, rising during the cold damp period in pre-schoolers and peaking around May in the schoolchildren. We found that asthma admissions are associated with ambient air pollution at different frequencies. Asthma exacerbation among the first age group (0-4 years) is strongly depended on winter air pollution whereas older children (5-14 years) appear to be more vulnerable to the exposure of primary air pollutants mainly during late spring. Our findings strengthen the aspect that weather conditions such as sea breeze, mainly happen at the late spring or early summer in association with air pollution episodes could affect childhood asthma exacerbation. </p></abstract><publication_date><month>04</month><day>29</day><year>2013</year></publication_date><pages><first_page>453</first_page><last_page>460</last_page></pages><publisher_item><identifier id_type="pii">511</identifier></publisher_item><doi_data><doi>10.30955/gnj.000511</doi><timestamp>1713426926</timestamp><resource>https://journal.gnest.org/publication/511</resource></doi_data></journal_article></journal></body></doi_batch> </div>
