어린이 천식과 주거환경적 위험요인에 대한 환자-대조군 연구

• 영문명: The Association between Childhood Asthma and Residential Environment through Case-Control Study
• 발행기관: 한국환경보건학회
• 저자명: 황규석(Gyuseok Hwang) 윤충식(Chungsik Yoon) 최재욱(Jaewook Choi)
• 간행물 정보: 『1. 한국환경보건학회지』제38권 제3호, 223~232쪽, 전체 10쪽
• 주제분류: 공학 > 환경공학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2012.06.30

영문 초록

Objective: We performed this study to determine the association between childhood asthma and residential environment risk factors including VOCs and formaldehyde exposure. Methods: We selected an asthma group (30) and a control gorup (30) through physicain diagnosis and assessed the VOCs and formaldehyde levels of exposure of elementary school children in Seoul. Results: In the results, there were no significant differences in socioeconomic factors between case and control groups. However, there were significant differences in family asthma history, amount of sunlight, level of humidity and number of household residents (p < 0.05). The level of VOC (toluene, ethylbenzene, stylene, m,pxylene) exposure level of the case group was significantly higher than that of the control group (p < 0.05) and the result of logistic regression showed that asthma family history, amount of humidity and number of household residents were significant predictors of childhood asthma (p < 0.05). Conclusion: Some residential environments such as lower amounts of sunlight, greater amounts of humidity and smaller numbers of household residents and VOC exposure were determinded as risk factors for childhood asthma.

키워드

childhood asthma residential risk factor VOCs formaldehyde