Table 6.
Adjusteda association between self-reported truck traffic on the street of residence and current wheeze in 6- to 7-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 | 1 | 1 | 833 | 1.41 (0.24–8.43) | 0.32 (0.03–3.32) | 0.32 (0.04–2.71) |
| Asia-Pacific | 3 | 5 | 13,064 | 1.27 (0.95–1.69) | 1.25 (0.98–1.61) | 0.93 (0.75–1.15) |
| Eastern Mediterranean | 2 | 4 | 7,882 | 1.20 (0.83–1.73) | 1.12 (0.79–1.59) | 0.93 (0.67–1.28) |
| Indian subcontinent | 1 | 7 | 16,972 | 2.43 (1.66–3.56) | 1.41 (0.97–2.04) | 1.48 (1.06–2.07) |
| Latin America | 5 | 7 | 15,641 | 1.51 (1.22–1.88) | 1.33 (1.09–1.61) | 1.08 (0.91–1.30) |
| North America | 2 | 2 | 3,076 | 1.60 (1.12–2.29) | 1.88 (1.37–2.59) | 1.13 (0.87–1.48) |
| Northern and Eastern Europe | 3 | 3 | 6,592 | 1.12 (0.76–1.66) | 1.23 (0.87–1.74) | 0.98 (0.71–1.36) |
| Oceania | 1 | 4 | 9,541 | 1.08 (0.83–1.41) | 1.16 (0.96–1.39) | 1.02 (0.87–1.21) |
| Western Europe | 3 | 12 | 26,953 | 1.23 (1.00–1.52) | 1.22 (1.06–1.41) | 1.07 (0.93–1.22) |
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.