María Teresa Solís-Soto|Armando Patiño|Dennis Nowak|Katja Radon
Association between environmental factors and current asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis and eczema symptoms in school-aged children from Oropeza Province – Bolivia: a cross-sectional study
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München|National Archive and Library of Bolivia|LMU Klinikum|Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München|LMU Klinikum|Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
recent years prevalence asthma rhinoconjunctivitis eczema symptoms childhood considerably increased developing countries including bolivia possibly due changes lifestyle environmental domestic factors study aimed assess association environmental factors asthma rhinoconjuctivitis eczema symptoms schoolaged children oropeza province chuquisaca bolivia crosssectional study performed 2340 children attending fifth grade 36 randomly selected elementary schools oropeza province prevalence symptoms determined using international study asthma allergies childhood isaac questionnaire environmental factors assessed isaac environmental questionnaire including questions related exposure pets farm animals indoor outdoor pollution presence disease vectors home precarious household conditions generalized linear mixedeffects models adjusted age sex place living thirty seven percent children reported least one parents smoked home wood coal used cooking fuel 19 homes 29 reported intense truck traffic street lived respect hygiene conditions 86 reported exposure dogs 59 exposure cats 36 regular contact farm animals one precarious household condition reported 8 children adjusted model exposure dog adjusted 14 ci 95 1019 cat 12 1015 farm animals 15 1218 intense truck traffic 13 1016 parents smoking home 12 1015 presence disease vectors home fourth quartile vs first quartile 16 1223 two precarious household conditions 15 1022 significantly associated rhinoconjunctivitis symptoms associations similar asthma eczema symptoms however reach level statistical significance items results support previous findings reported poor communities especially latin america showing lower hygiene conditions protective effect asthma rhinoconjunctivitis eczema symptoms