Association between long-term PM2.5 exposure and risk of urinary tract infection in children: a nationwide longitudinal cohort study
Jung Eun Choi, Hyemin Jang, Whanhee Lee, Jongmin Oh, Hae Soon Kim, Ji Hyen Lee, Jung Won Lee, Eunhee Ha · 2026
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Jung Eun Choi and co-authors link long-term fine particle air pollution to urinary tract infections in children in a 2026 nationwide Korean cohort study. Nearly four hundred thousand children and teenagers from a national insurance sample were followed from 2002 to 2019. Yearly average exposure to fine particles was estimated at fine geographic resolution and assigned to home districts, while infections were identified from diagnosis and prescription records.
More than twenty-eight thousand urinary infections occurred during follow-up. Each standard increase in yearly particle exposure was tied to a modestly higher infection risk, with a slightly stronger link for antibiotic-treated infections. The association was stronger in rural children and held across sensitivity checks, with exposure lagged by a year showing stronger effects. The authors suggest inflammation and immune disturbance as possible pathways.
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| CREATOR | Jung Eun Choi, Hyemin Jang, Whanhee Lee, Jongmin Oh, Hae Soon Kim, Ji Hyen Lee, Jung Won Lee, Eunhee Ha |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35649 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |