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Emergency room visits for respiratory conditions in children increased after Guagua Pichincha volcanic eruptions in April 2000 in Quito, Ecuador Observational Study Time Series Analysis

Environmental Health BioMedCentral Research Open Access Emergency room visits for respiratory conditions in children increased after Guagua Pichincha volcanic eruptions in April 2000 in Quito, Ecuador Observational Study: Time Series Analysis Elena N Naumova*1, Hugo Yepes2, Jeffrey K Griffiths1, Fernando Sempértegui3, Gauri Khurana1, Jyotsna S Jagai1, Edgar Játiva4 and Bertha Estrella3 Address: 1Department of Public Health and Family Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston MA 02111, USA, 2Instituto Geofisico, Escuela Politecnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador, 3Corporación Ecuatoriana de Biotecnología, Quito, Ecuador and 4Baca Ortiz Childrens Hospital, Quito, Ecuador Email: Elena N Naumova* - elena.naumova@; Hugo Yepes - hyepes@.ec; Jeffrey K Griffiths - jeffrey.griffiths@; Fernando Sempértegui - fersempert@; Gauri Khurana - gauri.khurana@; Jyotsna S Jagai - Jyotsna.Jagai@; Edgar Játiva - ejativa@; Bertha Estrella - bestrel@ * Corresponding author Published: 24 July 2007 Received: 12 February 2007 Accepted: 24 July 2007 Environmental Health 2007, 6:21 doi:10.1186/1476-069X-6-21 This article is available from: /content/6/1/21 ? 2007 Naumova et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: This study documented elevated rates of emergency room (ER) visits for acute upper and lower respiratory infections and asthma-related conditions in the children of Quito, Ecuador associated with the eruption of Guagua Pichincha in April of 2000. Methods: We abstracted 5169 (43% females) ER records with primary respiratory conditions treated from January 1 – December 27, 2000 and examined the change in pediatric ER visits for respiratory conditions before, during, and afte