Table 5.
Adjusteda association between self-reported truck traffic on the street of residence and current wheeze in 13- to 14-year-old children participating in the ISAAC phase 3 study in different parts of the world.
| No. |
OR (95% confidence interval)b |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Region | Country | Center | Total | High vs. never | Medium vs. never | Low vs. never |
| Africa | 2 | 2 | 2,656 | 1.30 (0.57–2.95) | 1.13 (0.43–2.92) | 0.91 (0.34–2.40) |
| Asia-Pacific | 6 | 10 | 29,271 | 1.23 (0.94–1.61) | 1.28 (1.03–1.59) | 1.09 (0.91–1.31) |
| Eastern Mediterranean | 2 | 4 | 8,700 | 1.43 (0.76–2.68) | 1.26 (0.69–2.32) | 1.11 (0.62–2.00) |
| Indian subcontinent | 1 | 9 | 19,029 | 1.49 (1.01–2.20) | 1.49 (1.03–2.15) | 1.23 (0.87–1.74) |
| Latin America | 10 | 18 | 40,300 | 1.38 (1.17–1.64) | 1.27 (1.08–1.50) | 1.08 (0.93–1.27) |
| North America | 2 | 2 | 4,525 | 1.71 (0.91–3.20) | 1.58 (0.93–2.68) | 1.52 (0.94–2.45) |
| Northern and Eastern Europe | 5 | 7 | 18,659 | 1.44 (1.08–1.90) | 1.30 (1.01–1.69) | 1.06 (0.83–1.35) |
| Western Europe | 2 | 13 | 29,833 | 1.22 (0.98–1.53) | 1.06 (0.89–1.26) | 0.94 (0.80–1.11) |
a
Adjusted for sex, language, GNI, maternal education, maternal and paternal smoking, exercise, television watching, fast food consumption, current paracetamol use, siblings, and cooking fuel.
b
High, almost the whole day; medium, frequently during the day; low, seldom.