ArticleEnvironmental geochemistry and health2016
Health effects of the 2012 Valencia (Spain) wildfires on children in a cohort study.
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- Health Impacts of Wildfire Smoke on Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Current environmental health reports · 2024Pooled it
- The Effect of Fire Smoke Exposure on Firefighters' Lung Function: A Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Assessing the Risk of Respiratory-Related Healthcare Visits Associated with Wildfire Smoke Exposure in Children 0-18 Years Old: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Climate change and child health in Europe: a scoping review of emerging impacts.European journal of pediatrics · 2026Article
- Association between air pollutant exposure and ocular surface, anterior and middle segment and fundus eye diseases: epidemiological and mechanism evidence.Eye (London, England) · 2026Review
- Barriers and Facilitators to Early-life Wildfire Smoke Protection in a Rural Population: The Role of Community in Research and Public Health Practice.Research square · 2025Article
- Wildfire Smoke Induces Eye Surface Inflammation and Tear Film Changes in a Human Experimental Model.Translational vision science & technology · 2025Article
- Evidence of the consequences of the prolonged fire season on air quality and public health from 2024 São Paulo (Brazil) data.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Intra-Continental Transport of Western Wildfire Smoke Heightens Health Risks Across North America.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Climate change aggravated wildfire behaviour in the Iberian Peninsula in recent years.NPJ climate and atmospheric science · 2025Article
- Repeated exposure to eucalyptus wood smoke alters pulmonary gene and metabolic profiles in male Long-Evans rats.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2024Article
- It's Time for Health Professionals to Break the Climate Taboo.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2024Article
- "Air That Once Was Breath" Part 1: Wildfire-Smoke-Induced Mechanisms of Airway Inflammation - "Climate Change, Allergy and Immunology" Special IAAI Article Collection: Collegium Internationale Allergologicum Update 2023.International archives of allergy and immunology · 2024Review
- The Effects of Wildfire Smoke on Asthma and Allergy.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2023Review
- Impacts of Wildfire Smoke and Air Pollution on a Pediatric Population with Asthma: A Population-Based Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- A Perspective on Pediatric Respiratory Outcomes During California Wildfires Due to Smoke and PMFrontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
- Health effects of wildfire smoke in children and public health tools: a narrative review.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2021Review
- A comparative analysis of Chinese regional climate regulation policy: ETS as an example.Environmental geochemistry and health · 2020Article
- Smoldering and flaming biomass wood smoke inhibit respiratory responses in mice.Inhalation toxicology · 2019Article
- Wildfire smoke exposure under climate change: impact on respiratory health of affected communities.Current opinion in pulmonary medicine · 2019Review
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Abstract
In July 2012, two simultaneous wildfires burnt a big area in Valencia (Spain), where a birth cohort study (INMA) is being developed. The heavy smoke covered the whole INMA study area for several days. We aimed at evaluating the 2012 Valencia wildfire effects on the health of children enrolled in the INMA-Valencia cohort. Two weeks after the extinction of the wildfires, a phone survey was conducted and finally 460 individuals were enrolled. We considered a wildfire period (12-day interval when they were active) and a control period (12-day interval just before wildfires). Parents were asked about respiratory symptoms experienced during both periods, and during wildfires only about the preventive measures adopted and the perception of exposure, along with individual data collected through the different follow-up surveys of the cohort. Conditional logistic regression models were applied, and we included interaction terms for asthma/rhinitis and level of perception of exposure; 82.4 % perceived smoke smell outdoors, 40 % indoors and more than 90 % of the families observed the presence of ash. An adjusted odds ratio of 3.11 [95 % confidence interval 1.62-5.97] for itchy/watery eyes and 3.02 [1.41-6.44] for sore throat was obtained. Significant interaction terms for rhinitis and asthma in itchy/watery eyes and sneezing, and only asthma for sore throat were obtained. Exposure to wildfire smoke was associated with increased respiratory symptoms in this child population, particularly affecting susceptible individuals with asthma or rhinitis.
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