Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST ePIbR0xD. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Few published studies have looked at the health effects of air pollution in the primary care setting, and most have concentrated on lower rather than upper respiratory diseases. The authors investigated the association of daily consultations with general practitioners for allergic rhinitis with air pollution in London, United Kingdom. Generalized additive models were used to regress time series of daily numbers of patients consulting for allergic rhinitis against 1992-1994 measures of air pollution, after control for possible confounders and adjustment for overdispersion and serial correlation. In children, a 10th-90th percentile increase in sulfur dioxide (SO2) levels 4 days prior to consultation (13-31 mug/m3) was associated with a 24.5% increase in consultations (95% confidence interval : 14.6,35.2 ; p
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