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Pollution is the big problem in our world, even though many remedies are found still we are unable to control the pollution. Recently researchers found that traffic-derived air pollutants as well as wood smoke and industrial emissions were associated with infant bronchiolitis. There has been very little study of the consequences of early life exposure to air pollution. During the study, the researchers analyzed nearly 12,000 diagnoses of infant bronchiolitis between 1999 and 2002 in south western British Columbia, with respect to the individual’s ambient pollution exposure based on monitored levels of nitric oxide (NO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), carbon monoxide (CO), sulphur dioxide (SO2), and particulate matter from monitoring stations within 10 km of the infants’ homes. The study appears in the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
Also in a research it was found that infants who lived within 50 meters of a highway had an increased risk of six percent; those who lived in a higher wood smoke exposure area had an increase of eight percent in their risk of bronchiolitis. Actually this study adds to a growing body of research showing a link between neighbourhood air pollution hotspots and paediatric respiratory disease