Seyni Gueye-Ndiaye, Marissa Hauptman, Xinting Yu, Le Li, Michael Rueschman, Cecilia Castro-Diehl, Tamar Sofer, Judith Owens, Diane R Gold, Gary Adamkiewicz, Nervana Metwali, Peter S Thorne, Wanda Phipatanakul, Susan Redline
BACKGROUND: Pediatric sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) disproportionately affects children with low socioeconomic status (SES). The multilevel risk factors that drive these associations are not well understood. RESEARCH QUESTION: What are the associations between SDB risk factors, including individual health conditions (obesity, asthma, and allergies), household SES (maternal education), indoor exposures (environmental tobacco smoke [ETS] and pests), and neighborhood characteristics (neighborhood disadvantage), and pediatric SDB symptoms? STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: Cross-sectional analyses were performed on 303 children (aged 6-12 years) enrolled in the Environmental Assessment of Sleep Youth study from 2018 to 2022...
December 2023: CHEST Pulm