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Assessment of Respiratory Health Symptoms and Asthma in Children near a Drying Saline Lake
Residents of the Imperial Valley, a rural, agricultural border region in California, have raised concerns over high rates of pediatric asthma symptoms. There is an urgent need to understand the influences and predictors of children’s respiratory health in Imperial Valley. We assessed the impacts of...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6843482/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31614424 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16203828 |
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author | Farzan, Shohreh F. Razafy, Mitiasoa Eckel, Sandrah P. Olmedo, Luis Bejarano, Esther Johnston, Jill E. |
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description | Residents of the Imperial Valley, a rural, agricultural border region in California, have raised concerns over high rates of pediatric asthma symptoms. There is an urgent need to understand the influences and predictors of children’s respiratory health in Imperial Valley. We assessed the impacts of sociodemographic, lifestyle, and household factors on children’s respiratory health and asthma prevalence by administering a survey to parents of elementary school children (n = 357) in northern Imperial Valley. We observed an overall asthma prevalence of 22.4% and respiratory symptoms and allergies were widely reported, including wheezing (35.3%), allergies (36.1%), bronchitic symptoms (28.6%), and dry cough (33.3%). Asthmatics were significantly more likely to report respiratory symptoms, but high rates of wheezing, allergies, and dry cough were observed among nonasthmatics, suggesting the possibility for underdiagnosis of respiratory impairment in our school-age population. Having an asthmatic mother and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke were also associated with greater odds of asthma. Our findings provide evidence to support community concerns about children’s respiratory health, while also suggesting that household and demographic characteristics have limited explanatory power for assessing asthma in this population. This work provides critical baseline data with which to evaluate local environmental factors and their influence on asthma and respiratory symptoms. |
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spelling | pubmed-68434822019-11-25 Assessment of Respiratory Health Symptoms and Asthma in Children near a Drying Saline Lake Farzan, Shohreh F. Razafy, Mitiasoa Eckel, Sandrah P. Olmedo, Luis Bejarano, Esther Johnston, Jill E. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Residents of the Imperial Valley, a rural, agricultural border region in California, have raised concerns over high rates of pediatric asthma symptoms. There is an urgent need to understand the influences and predictors of children’s respiratory health in Imperial Valley. We assessed the impacts of sociodemographic, lifestyle, and household factors on children’s respiratory health and asthma prevalence by administering a survey to parents of elementary school children (n = 357) in northern Imperial Valley. We observed an overall asthma prevalence of 22.4% and respiratory symptoms and allergies were widely reported, including wheezing (35.3%), allergies (36.1%), bronchitic symptoms (28.6%), and dry cough (33.3%). Asthmatics were significantly more likely to report respiratory symptoms, but high rates of wheezing, allergies, and dry cough were observed among nonasthmatics, suggesting the possibility for underdiagnosis of respiratory impairment in our school-age population. Having an asthmatic mother and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke were also associated with greater odds of asthma. Our findings provide evidence to support community concerns about children’s respiratory health, while also suggesting that household and demographic characteristics have limited explanatory power for assessing asthma in this population. This work provides critical baseline data with which to evaluate local environmental factors and their influence on asthma and respiratory symptoms. MDPI 2019-10-11 2019-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6843482/ /pubmed/31614424 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16203828 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Farzan, Shohreh F. Razafy, Mitiasoa Eckel, Sandrah P. Olmedo, Luis Bejarano, Esther Johnston, Jill E. Assessment of Respiratory Health Symptoms and Asthma in Children near a Drying Saline Lake |
title | Assessment of Respiratory Health Symptoms and Asthma in Children near a Drying Saline Lake |
title_full | Assessment of Respiratory Health Symptoms and Asthma in Children near a Drying Saline Lake |
title_fullStr | Assessment of Respiratory Health Symptoms and Asthma in Children near a Drying Saline Lake |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessment of Respiratory Health Symptoms and Asthma in Children near a Drying Saline Lake |
title_short | Assessment of Respiratory Health Symptoms and Asthma in Children near a Drying Saline Lake |
title_sort | assessment of respiratory health symptoms and asthma in children near a drying saline lake |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6843482/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31614424 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16203828 |
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