Health effects of air pollution on respiratory symptoms: A longitudinal study using digital health sensors.

Jason G Su¹, Vy Vuong², Eahsan Shahriary³, Shadi Aslebagh³, Emma Yakutis³, Emma Sage³, Rebecca Haile³, John Balmes⁴, Meredith Barrett⁵

¹School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States. Electronic address: jasonsu@berkeley.edu.

²Propeller Health, 505 Montgomery St #2300, San Francisco, CA 94111, United States.

³School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States.

⁴School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, United States.

⁵Propeller Health, 505 Montgomery St #2300, San Francisco, CA 94111, United States; ResMed, San Diego, CA 92123, United States.

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Abstract

Previous studies of air pollution and respiratory disease often relied on aggregated or lagged acute respiratory disease outcome measures, such as emergency department (ED) visits or hospitalizations, which may lack temporal and spatial resolution. This study investigated the association between daily air pollution exposure and respiratory symptoms among participants with asthma and chronic obstru…

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