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Ambient particulate pollution and the world-wide prevalence of asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis and eczema in children: Phase One of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC)
Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 11/04/09

Anderson HR et al. – Modelled estimates of particulate matter (PM) at city level will necessarily be imprecise and incomplete estimates of personal exposure to ambient air pollutants. Nevertheless, the results of this world–wide ecological analysis, together with those of previous multicentre studies, suggest that urban background PM10 has little or no association with the prevalence of childhood asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis or eczema either within or between countries.