Scholarship 09/09487-4 - Asma, Poluição ambiental - BV FAPESP
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Atmospheric pollutants and asthma in childhood and adolescents: a time series study

Grant number: 09/09487-4
Support Opportunities:Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
Start date until: December 01, 2009
End date until: November 30, 2010
Field of knowledge:Health Sciences - Collective Health - Preventive Medicine
Principal Investigator:Luiz Fernando Costa Nascimento
Grantee:Camila Trolez Amancio
Host Institution: Instituto Básico de Biociências (IBB). Universidade de Taubaté (UNITAU). Taubaté , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Asthma is one of the most prevalent diseases of childhood and adolescence. In Brazil it is estimated a prevalence of 20%. Among the triggering factors for asthma are the environmental pollutants. The objective of this project is to estimate the role of these pollutants in the genesis of asthma in a city of medium size by using time series and regression analysis of Poisson (AU)

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)
CAMILA TROLEZ AMÂNCIO; LUIZ FERNANDO COSTA NASCIMENTO. Asma e poluentes ambientais: um estudo de séries temporais. Revista da Associação Médica Brasileira, v. 58, n. 3, p. 302-307, . (09/09487-4)

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