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    Publication Date: 2015-11-18
    Description: Background Asthma prevalence and acute exacerbations have been associated with endotoxin exposure. However, there are limited data on relations between acute asthma outcomes in children and personal exposure to endotoxin or whether this relation is modified by personal air pollution exposures. Methods We made repeated measurements of the fractional concentration of exhaled NO (F e NO ), forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV 1 ) and personal endotoxin exposures in patients with persistent asthma aged 9–18 years, each of whom was followed for 10 consecutive days in Riverside and Whittier, California. Endotoxin was measured in PM 2.5 , and simultaneously we measured personal exposure to air pollutants: NO 2 and PM 2.5 mass, elemental carbon and organic carbon. Endotoxin exposure–response relations and interactions between endotoxin and air pollutants were analysed with mixed models controlling for personal temperature, humidity and the 10-day period. Results Neither percent-predicted FEV 1 nor F e NO was associated with personal endotoxin overall; however, endotoxin was associated with FEV 1 among patients with average percent-predicted FEV 1 〈80%. When NO 2 was above its median, F e NO increased by 2.2% (95% CI –0.8% to 5.2%) for an interquartile increase in personal endotoxin, whereas F e NO was lower by –1.8% (95% CI –4% to 0.5%) when NO 2 was≤its median. However, this is out of 12 interaction tests between personal endotoxin and a binary air pollutant for each outcome (FEV 1 and F e NO ), and there were no interactions with any continuous-scaled pollutant. Conclusions Personal endotoxin exposure was not associated with acute daily changes in F e NO or FEV 1 in a cohort panel of schoolchildren with asthma, except for decreased FEV 1 among patients with more severe asthma (percent-predicted FEV 1 〈80%). There was limited evidence of effect modification of endotoxin by personal exposure to air pollution.
    Keywords: Air pollution, air quality, Other exposures
    Print ISSN: 1351-0711
    Electronic ISSN: 1470-7926
    Topics: Medicine
    Published by BMJ Publishing Group
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