Relationship of Air Pollution to Attack Rate of Asthma in Children

Madu Rao Department of Pediatrics, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Kings County Hospital Center, 451 Clarkson Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y., 11203

Phillip Steiner Department of Pediatrics, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Kings County Hospital Center, 451 Clarkson Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y., 11203

Qutob Qazi Department of Pediatrics, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Kings County Hospital Center, 451 Clarkson Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y., 11203

Ruben Padre Department of Pediatrics, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Kings County Hospital Center, 451 Clarkson Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y., 11203

John E. Allen Department of Pediatrics, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Kings County Hospital Center, 451 Clarkson Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y., 11203

Morris Steiner Department of Pediatrics, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Kings County Hospital Center, 451 Clarkson Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y., 11203

Abstract

An inverse relationship between daily levels of smoke shade in ambient air and number of visits of children to an emergency clinic for acute episodes of asthma was noted over a period of six months—October 1, 1970 to March 31, 1971. The patient visits were not affected by variation in sulphur dioxide levels, although there was a significant correlation between the latter and the levels of smoke shade.

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