Health effects of the 2003 Southern California wildfires on children.

PubWeight™: 2.81‹?› | Rank: Top 1%

🔗 View Article (PMC 2648104)

Published in Am J Respir Crit Care Med on August 31, 2006

Authors

Nino Künzli1, Ed Avol, Jun Wu, W James Gauderman, Ed Rappaport, Joshua Millstein, Jonathan Bennion, Rob McConnell, Frank D Gilliland, Kiros Berhane, Fred Lurmann, Arthur Winer, John M Peters

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. kuenzli@imim.es

Articles citing this

Global climate change and children's health: threats and strategies for prevention. Environ Health Perspect (2010) 2.25

The relationship of respiratory and cardiovascular hospital admissions to the southern California wildfires of 2003. Occup Environ Med (2008) 2.06

Peat bog wildfire smoke exposure in rural North Carolina is associated with cardiopulmonary emergency department visits assessed through syndromic surveillance. Environ Health Perspect (2011) 1.80

Birth weight following pregnancy during the 2003 Southern California wildfires. Environ Health Perspect (2012) 1.55

Three measures of forest fire smoke exposure and their associations with respiratory and cardiovascular health outcomes in a population-based cohort. Environ Health Perspect (2011) 1.51

A systematic review of the physical health impacts from non-occupational exposure to wildfire smoke. Environ Res (2014) 1.22

Meteorological conditions, climate change, new emerging factors, and asthma and related allergic disorders. A statement of the World Allergy Organization. World Allergy Organ J (2015) 1.14

Time series analysis of fine particulate matter and asthma reliever dispensations in populations affected by forest fires. Environ Health (2013) 1.00

Social environment and asthma: associations with crime and No Child Left Behind programmes. J Epidemiol Community Health (2010) 0.96

Respiratory and mental health effects of wildfires: an ecological study in Galician municipalities (north-west Spain). Environ Health (2011) 0.94

Emergency room visits for respiratory conditions in children increased after Guagua Pichincha volcanic eruptions in April 2000 in Quito, Ecuador observational study: time series analysis. Environ Health (2007) 0.93

What health professionals should know about the health effects of air pollution and climate change on children and pregnant mothers. Iran J Nurs Midwifery Res (2011) 0.92

Non-accidental health impacts of wildfire smoke. Int J Environ Res Public Health (2014) 0.85

Cell-specific oxidative stress and cytotoxicity after wildfire coarse particulate matter instillation into mouse lung. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol (2012) 0.84

Potential Occupational Exposures and Health Risks Associated with Biomass-Based Power Generation. Int J Environ Res Public Health (2015) 0.81

Why is particulate matter produced by wildfires toxic to lung macrophages? Toxicol Appl Pharmacol (2011) 0.81

Respiratory symptoms following wildfire smoke exposure: airway size as a susceptibility factor. Epidemiology (2009) 0.80

Projection of wildfire activity in southern California in the mid-21st century. Clim Dyn (2014) 0.79

Exposure to an Indoor Cooking Fire and Risk of Trachoma in Children of Kongwa, Tanzania. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2015) 0.77

Effect of catastrophic wildfires on asthmatic outcomes in obese children: breathing fire. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol (2015) 0.76

Early Life Wildfire Smoke Exposure Is Associated with Immune Dysregulation and Lung Function Decrements in Adolescence. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol (2017) 0.76

Environment, Global Climate Change, and Cardiopulmonary Health. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2016) 0.75

Where there's fire, there's smoke. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2006) 0.75

How much smoke do we need in order to assume that there is a fire? Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2007) 0.75

Repeating cardiopulmonary health effects in rural North Carolina population during a second large peat wildfire. Environ Health (2016) 0.75

The association of wildfire smoke with respiratory and cardiovascular emergency department visits in Colorado in 2012: a case crossover study. Environ Health (2016) 0.75

Wildfire smoke exposure and human health: Significant gaps in research for a growing public health issue. Environ Toxicol Pharmacol (2017) 0.75

Health effects of the 2012 Valencia (Spain) wildfires on children in a cohort study. Environ Geochem Health (2015) 0.75

Articles cited by this

Traffic, susceptibility, and childhood asthma. Environ Health Perspect (2006) 5.50

A study of twelve Southern California communities with differing levels and types of air pollution. I. Prevalence of respiratory morbidity. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (1999) 3.71

The human bone marrow response to acute air pollution caused by forest fires. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2000) 2.22

Chronic effect of fire fighting on pulmonary function. N Engl J Med (1974) 2.20

Exposure to traffic related air pollutants: self reported traffic intensity versus GIS modelled exposure. Occup Environ Med (2005) 2.07

Forest fires, air pollution, and mortality in southeast Asia. Demography (2002) 1.96

The toxicology of inhaled woodsmoke. J Toxicol Environ Health B Crit Rev (2002) 1.73

Wildland forest fire smoke: health effects and intervention evaluation, Hoopa, California, 1999. West J Med (2002) 1.64

The 1987 forest fire disaster in California: assessment of emergency room visits. Arch Environ Health (1990) 1.63

A theoretical basis for investigating ambient air pollution and children's respiratory health. Environ Health Perspect (1999) 1.52

Impact to lung health of haze from forest fires: the Singapore experience. Respirology (2000) 1.52

An analysis of effects of San Diego wildfire on ambient air quality. J Air Waste Manag Assoc (2006) 1.38

Validity of annoyance scores for estimation of long term air pollution exposure in epidemiologic studies: the Swiss Study on Air Pollution and Lung Diseases in Adults (SAPALDIA). Am J Epidemiol (2000) 1.22

Acute effects of bushfires on peak expiratory flow rates in children with wheeze: a time series analysis. Aust N Z J Public Health (2000) 1.17

Prescribed burns and wildfires in Colorado: impacts of mitigation measures on indoor air particulate matter. J Air Waste Manag Assoc (2005) 1.15

Acute effects of urban ambient air pollution on respiratory symptoms, asthma medication use, and doctor visits for asthma in a cohort of Australian children. Environ Res (2004) 1.10

Polymorphonuclear leukocytes released from the bone marrow preferentially sequester in lung microvessels. Microcirculation (1997) 1.06

2002 summer fires in Lithuania: impact on the Vilnius city air quality and the inhabitants health. Sci Total Environ (2005) 0.99

Shedding new light on wood smoke: a risk factor for respiratory health. Eur Respir J (2006) 0.95

Articles by these authors

Mapping the genetic architecture of gene expression in human liver. PLoS Biol (2008) 19.44

TSC2 is phosphorylated and inhibited by Akt and suppresses mTOR signalling. Nat Cell Biol (2002) 17.41

A PGC1-α-dependent myokine that drives brown-fat-like development of white fat and thermogenesis. Nature (2012) 14.67

The effect of air pollution on lung development from 10 to 18 years of age. N Engl J Med (2004) 8.58

Adaptation to ER stress is mediated by differential stabilities of pro-survival and pro-apoptotic mRNAs and proteins. PLoS Biol (2006) 6.45

Asthma in exercising children exposed to ozone: a cohort study. Lancet (2002) 5.84

FGF21 regulates PGC-1α and browning of white adipose tissues in adaptive thermogenesis. Genes Dev (2012) 5.71

Exploiting gene-environment interaction to detect genetic associations. Hum Hered (2007) 5.63

Traffic, susceptibility, and childhood asthma. Environ Health Perspect (2006) 5.50

Effect of exposure to traffic on lung development from 10 to 18 years of age: a cohort study. Lancet (2007) 5.34

Endoplasmic reticulum stress activates cleavage of CREBH to induce a systemic inflammatory response. Cell (2006) 5.10

Prenatal tobacco smoke exposure affects global and gene-specific DNA methylation. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2009) 4.44

UPR pathways combine to prevent hepatic steatosis caused by ER stress-mediated suppression of transcriptional master regulators. Dev Cell (2008) 4.26

Single-cell RNA-Seq profiling of human preimplantation embryos and embryonic stem cells. Nat Struct Mol Biol (2013) 4.04

Gene-environment interaction in genome-wide association studies. Am J Epidemiol (2008) 3.96

Genome-wide association analysis identifies variants associated with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease that have distinct effects on metabolic traits. PLoS Genet (2011) 3.92

Obesity and the risk of newly diagnosed asthma in school-age children. Am J Epidemiol (2003) 3.87

A testing framework for identifying susceptibility genes in the presence of epistasis. Am J Hum Genet (2005) 3.69

Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of asthma in ethnically diverse North American populations. Nat Genet (2011) 3.68

Elevated biomarkers of inflammation are associated with reduced survival among breast cancer patients. J Clin Oncol (2009) 3.58

Genome-wide association analysis identifies PDE4D as an asthma-susceptibility gene. Am J Hum Genet (2009) 3.41

Childhood asthma and exposure to traffic and nitrogen dioxide. Epidemiology (2005) 3.32

Physical activity levels before and after a diagnosis of breast carcinoma: the Health, Eating, Activity, and Lifestyle (HEAL) study. Cancer (2003) 3.25

Cold acclimation recruits human brown fat and increases nonshivering thermogenesis. J Clin Invest (2013) 3.25

Childhood incident asthma and traffic-related air pollution at home and school. Environ Health Perspect (2010) 3.24

The Genetic Analysis Workshop 16 Problem 3: simulation of heritable longitudinal cardiovascular phenotypes based on actual genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphisms in the Framingham Heart Study. BMC Proc (2009) 3.11

Association of improved air quality with lung development in children. N Engl J Med (2015) 2.88

Physical activity levels among breast cancer survivors. Med Sci Sports Exerc (2004) 2.88

Influence of pre- and postdiagnosis physical activity on mortality in breast cancer survivors: the health, eating, activity, and lifestyle study. J Clin Oncol (2008) 2.85

5-year urinary and sexual outcomes after radical prostatectomy: results from the prostate cancer outcomes study. J Urol (2005) 2.72

C/EBPβ controls exercise-induced cardiac growth and protects against pathological cardiac remodeling. Cell (2010) 2.68

A genome-wide association meta-analysis identifies new childhood obesity loci. Nat Genet (2012) 2.60

Aberrant promoter methylation in bronchial epithelium and sputum from current and former smokers. Cancer Res (2002) 2.56

Quality of life following localized prostate cancer treated initially with androgen deprivation therapy or no therapy. J Natl Cancer Inst (2002) 2.54

Childhood air pollutant exposure and carotid artery intima-media thickness in young adults. Circulation (2012) 2.51

CCL2 mediates cross-talk between cancer cells and stromal fibroblasts that regulates breast cancer stem cells. Cancer Res (2012) 2.50

Readers of histone modifications. Cell Res (2011) 2.40

Allele-specific silencing of mutant huntingtin and ataxin-3 genes by targeting expanded CAG repeats in mRNAs. Nat Biotechnol (2009) 2.36

A PGC-1α isoform induced by resistance training regulates skeletal muscle hypertrophy. Cell (2012) 2.35

Diagnostic and prognostic implications of microRNAs in human hepatocellular carcinoma. Int J Cancer (2008) 2.35

Effects of glutathione S-transferase M1, maternal smoking during pregnancy, and environmental tobacco smoke on asthma and wheezing in children. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2002) 2.32

Traffic-related air pollution, particulate matter, and autism. JAMA Psychiatry (2013) 2.24

Traffic-related air pollution and asthma onset in children: a prospective cohort study with individual exposure measurement. Environ Health Perspect (2008) 2.17

Birth outcomes and prenatal exposure to ozone, carbon monoxide, and particulate matter: results from the Children's Health Study. Environ Health Perspect (2005) 2.17

5-year urinary and sexual outcomes after radical prostatectomy: results from the Prostate Cancer Outcomes Study. J Urol (2008) 2.16

Microsomal epoxide hydrolase, glutathione S-transferase P1, traffic and childhood asthma. Thorax (2007) 2.10

TRPV4 is a regulator of adipose oxidative metabolism, inflammation, and energy homeostasis. Cell (2012) 2.03

Changes in body fat and weight after a breast cancer diagnosis: influence of demographic, prognostic, and lifestyle factors. J Clin Oncol (2005) 2.01

Myotube assembly on nanofibrous and micropatterned polymers. Nano Lett (2006) 2.00

Recent evidence for adverse effects of residential proximity to traffic sources on asthma. Curr Opin Pulm Med (2008) 2.00

Effects of glutathione-S-transferase M1, T1, and P1 on childhood lung function growth. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2002) 1.98

Maternal and grandmaternal smoking patterns are associated with early childhood asthma. Chest (2005) 1.98

Ultrasound-targeted gene delivery induces angiogenesis after a myocardial infarction in mice. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging (2009) 1.94

Residential proximity to freeways and autism in the CHARGE study. Environ Health Perspect (2010) 1.92

Protein kinase Ctheta is required for autophagy in response to stress in the endoplasmic reticulum. J Biol Chem (2008) 1.89

EBF2 determines and maintains brown adipocyte identity. Cell Metab (2013) 1.85

Cerebral oxygen saturation-time threshold for hypoxic-ischemic injury in piglets. Anesth Analg (2009) 1.82

Gene promoter methylation in plasma and sputum increases with lung cancer risk. Clin Cancer Res (2005) 1.81

DNA methylation in the arginase-nitric oxide synthase pathway is associated with exhaled nitric oxide in children with asthma. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2011) 1.79

St John's wort induces both cytochrome P450 3A4-catalyzed sulfoxidation and 2C19-dependent hydroxylation of omeprazole. Clin Pharmacol Ther (2004) 1.79

Sample size requirements to detect gene-environment interactions in genome-wide association studies. Genet Epidemiol (2011) 1.78

Exercise induces hippocampal BDNF through a PGC-1α/FNDC5 pathway. Cell Metab (2013) 1.76

Childhood obesity and asthma control in the GALA II and SAGE II studies. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2013) 1.75

MLL fusion proteins preferentially regulate a subset of wild-type MLL target genes in the leukemic genome. Blood (2011) 1.74

Near-roadway pollution and childhood asthma: implications for developing "win-win" compact urban development and clean vehicle strategies. Environ Health Perspect (2012) 1.73

Cryopreservation of complex systems: the missing link in the regenerative medicine supply chain. Rejuvenation Res (2006) 1.73