ArticleThe Journal of allergy and clinical immunology2014
Cost of near-roadway and regional air pollution-attributable childhood asthma in Los Angeles County.
Article in The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed, 37 citations in OpenAlex.
- Methodological considerations for estimating indirect costs in children and adolescents with chronic conditions: a scoping review.BMC pediatrics · 2025Article
- Childhood Air Pollution Exposure Associated with Self-reported Bronchitic Symptoms in Adulthood.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2024Article
- A novel tool using social and environmental determinants of health to assess pediatric asthma in the emergency department.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2024Article
- Costs of Air Pollution in California's San Joaquin Valley: A Societal Perspective of the Burden of Asthma on Emergency Departments and Inpatient Care.Journal of asthma and allergy · 2024Article
- Incorporating the impact of roadside barrier effects on dispersion into AERMOD.Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (1995) · 2024Article
- Pricing air pollution: evidence from short-term exposure to air pollution on hospitalization of acute bronchitis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in southwestern China.International health · 2022Article
- The impact of GPS-derived activity spaces on personal PMEnvironmental research · 2022Article
- Monetizing the Burden of Childhood Asthma Due to Traffic Related Air Pollution in the Contiguous United States in 2010.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Conditions Leading to Elevated PMInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Understanding the importance of key risk factors in predicting chronic bronchitic symptoms using a machine learning approach.BMC medical research methodology · 2019Article
- RISK EFFECTS OF NEAR-ROADWAY POLLUTANTS AND ASTHMA STATUS ON BRONCHITIC SYMPTOMS IN CHILDREN.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2018Article
- Calculation of the disease burden associated with environmental chemical exposures: application of toxicological information in health economic estimation.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2017Review
- Electronic Cigarette Use and Respiratory Symptoms in Adolescents.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2017Article
- Feasibility of Deploying Inhaler Sensors to Identify the Impacts of Environmental Triggers and Built Environment Factors on Asthma Short-Acting Bronchodilator Use.Environmental health perspectives · 2017Article
- The hidden economic burden of air pollution-related morbidity: evidence from the Aphekom project.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2016Article
- Association of Changes in Air Quality With Bronchitic Symptoms in Children in California, 1993-2012.JAMA · 2016Article
- Economic evaluation of the air pollution effect on public health in China's 74 cities.SpringerPlus · 2016Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundEmerging evidence suggests that near-roadway air pollution (NRP) exposure causes childhood asthma. The associated costs are not well documented.
objectiveWe estimated the cost of childhood asthma attributable to residential NRP exposure and regional ozone (O3) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) levels in Los Angeles County. We developed a novel approach to apportion the costs between these exposures under different pollution scenarios.
methodsWe integrated results from a study of willingness to pay to reduce the burden of asthma with results from studies of health care use and charges to estimate the costs of an asthma case and exacerbation. We applied those costs to the number of asthma cases and exacerbations caused by regional pollution in 2007 and to hypothetical scenarios of a 20% reduction in regional pollution in combination with a 20% reduction or increase in the proportion of the total population living within 75 m of a major roadway.
resultsCost of air pollution-related asthma in Los Angeles County in 2007 was $441 million for O3 and $202 million for NO2 in 2010 dollars. Cost of routine care (care in absence of exacerbation) accounted for 18% of the combined NRP and O3 cost and 39% of the combined NRP and NO2 cost; these costs were not recognized in previous analyses. NRP-attributable asthma accounted for 43% (O3) to 51% (NO2) of the total annual cost of exacerbations and routine care associated with pollution. Hypothetical scenarios showed that costs from increased NRP exposure might offset savings from reduced regional pollution.
conclusionsOur model disaggregates the costs of regional pollution and NRP exposure and illustrates how they might vary under alternative exposure scenarios. The cost of air pollution is a substantial burden on families and an economic loss for society.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.