Heavy vehicle traffic is related to wheeze among schoolchildren: a population-based study in an area with low traffic flows (31 page pdf, Martin Andersson, Lars Modig, Linnea Hedman, Bertil Forsberg and Eva Ronmark, Environmental Health, Oct. 13, 2011)
Today the focus is on a study of the health threat posed by emissions from traffic within 200 m of schoolchildren in a cold climate. The results indicate that these emissions pose a threat even when the traffic is not heavy and this implies an even greater link between traffic and pollution generally.
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