Fred Lurmann

TL;DR: Current levels of air pollution have chronic, adverse effects on lung development in children from the age of 10 to 18 years, leading to clinically significant deficits in attained FEV as children reach adulthood.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the association between residential exposure to traffi c and 8-year lung function growth and found that children who lived within 500 m of a freeway (motorway) had substantial defi cits in 8 years growth of forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1, −81 mL, p=0·01 [95% CI −143 to −18]) and maximum midexpiratory fl ow rate (MMEF, −127 mL/s, p =0·03 [−243 to −11

TL;DR: It is indicated that residence near a major road is associated with asthma and that in children with a parental history of asthma and in children moving to the residence after 2 years of age, there was no increased risk associated with exposure.

TL;DR: Exposure to traffic-related air pollution, nitrogen dioxide, PM2.5, and PM10 during pregnancy and during the first year of life was associated with autism.

TL;DR: Asthma risk increased with modeled traffic-related pollution exposure from roadways near homes and near schools and in models with both NO2 and modeled traffic exposures, whereas the estimate for NO2 was attenuated.