title: [Respiratory disease risk factors in the 5-14 year-old population in an area of Bogota, 2012-2013].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Establishing the prevalence of respiratory symptoms, asthma and rhinitis, possibly associated with air pollution, in 5- to 14-year-old children in Bosa (a conurbation of Bogota), between 2012 and 2013.
  
  
  METHODS
  A sample was taken of 553 children living in the conurbation.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The results indicated that when a child lives with people who smoke there was a 1.5 times risk of coughing at night (compared to living in a non-smoking home) such night-time coughing being different to that produced by respiratory infections such as colds, bronchitis and pneumonia. Children living in homes having fireplaces/open cooking areas located less than 100 m apart had 1.6 times greater probability of presenting symptoms. Children attending schools having greater PM10 exposure and living near buildings being constructed or having roads in a poor state of repair less than 100 meters from their homes were 2.5 times more likely to suffer respiratory disease. Children living in damp rooms were 4 times more likely to have wheezed during the past year. The risk of wheezing became increased by 80 % when a child lived within 100 meters of buildings being constructed or near unpaved roads and attended a school having greater exposure.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Government intervention is critical for changing respiratory disease-associated extramural risk factors, such as improvements benefitting children which should be carried out in urban areas.
authors.affiliation: Secretaria Distrital de Salud, Bogotá, Colombia, ekmedina@saludcapital.gov.co.
authors.forename: Natalia
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Rodríguez-Moreno
authors.affiliation: Hospital Pablo VI Bosa I Nivel ESE, Bogotá, Colombia.
authors.forename: Viviana
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Martínez-Morales
authors.affiliation: Secretaria Distrital de Salud, Bogotá, Colombia, ekmedina@saludcapital.gov.co.
authors.forename: Rodrigo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sarmiento-Suarez
authors.affiliation: Secretaria Distrital de Salud, Bogotá, Colombia, ekmedina@saludcapital.gov.co.
authors.forename: Katalina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Medina-Palacios
authors.affiliation: Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
authors.forename: Luis J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Hernández
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001249:Asthma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003105:Colombia; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D012220:Rhinitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012307:Risk Factors; D013997:Time Factors; D014504:Urban Health