IJERPH, Vol. 17, Pages 5828: Associations of Preconception Exposure to Air Pollution and Greenness with Offspring Asthma and Hay Fever

IJERPH, Vol. 17, Pages 5828: Associations of Preconception Exposure to Air Pollution and Greenness with Offspring Asthma and Hay Fever International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health doi: 10.3390/ijerph17165828 Authors: Ingrid Nordeide Kuiper Iana Markevych Simone Accordini Randi J. Bertelsen Lennart Bråbäck Jesper Heile Christensen Bertil Forsberg Thomas Halvorsen Joachim Heinrich Ole Hertel Gerard Hoek Mathias Holm Kees de Hoogh Christer Janson Andrei Malinovschi Alessandro Marcon Torben Sigsgaard Cecilie Svanes Ane Johannessen We investigated if greenness and air pollution exposure in parents’ childhood affect offspring asthma and hay fever, and if effects were mediated through parental asthma, pregnancy greenness/pollution exposure, and offspring exposure. We analysed 1106 parents with 1949 offspring (mean age 35 and 6) from the Respiratory Health in Northern Europe, Spain and Australia (RHINESSA) generation study. Mean particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), black carbon (BC), ozone (O3) (µg/m3) and greenness (normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI)) were calculated for parents 0–18 years old and offspring 0–10 years old, and were categorised in tertiles. We performed logistic regression and mediation analyses for two-pollutant models (clustered by family and centre, stratified by parental lines, and adjusted for grandparental...
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