Children Closest to Harbor Trade Roadways Suffer More Respiratory Issues, Study Says
Press Telegram › November 04, 2009
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LONG BEACH - A new study on the health impacts of pollution caused primarily by trucks, trains and ships servicing the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles finds children living closest to harbor trade corridors suffer from respiratory ailments significantly higher than previously thought.
The study, published online today in the American Journal of Public Health, estimates 9 percent of childhood asthma cases in Long Beach are attributable directly to the distance in which sufferers live to freeways and roadways connecting the harbor with inland distribution centers. It was also found at least 1,400 cases of asthma-related bronchitis episodes in the city were caused by ship emissions, notably nitrogen oxide (NOX) fumes.See the full content of this document
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Children Closest to Harbor Trade Roadways Suffer More Respiratory Issues, Study Says
In Riverside, another hub of goods movement studied in the report, the percentage of asthma cases linked to roadway proximity reached 6 percent, though overall childhood asthma rates in both cities are several percentage points higher.
"The traditional approach to estimating the burden of air pollution-related disease markedly underestimated the true effect," said Rob McConnell, a professor of preventive medicine at USC's Keck School of Medicine. "Our results indicate that there i...See the full content of this document
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