Health effects of the 2012 Valencia (Spain) wildfires on XXXX in a cohort study.

@entity1 @entity565 @entity735 @entity2490
UNASSIGNED: In July 2012, two simultaneous wildfires burnt a big area in Valencia (Spain), where a birth cohort study (INMA) is being developed. The heavy smoke covered the whole INMA study area for several days. We aimed at evaluating the 2012 Valencia wildfire effects on the health of @entity1 enrolled in the INMA-Valencia cohort. Two weeks after the extinction of the wildfires, a phone survey was conducted and finally 460 individuals were enrolled. We considered a wildfire period (12-day interval when they were active) and a control period (12-day interval just before wildfires). Parents were asked about respiratory symptoms experienced during both periods, and during wildfires only about the preventive measures adopted and the perception of exposure, along with individual data collected through the different follow-up surveys of the cohort. Conditional logistic regression models were applied, and we included interaction terms for @entity565 / @entity2490 and level of perception of exposure; 82.4  % perceived smoke smell outdoors, 40  % indoors and more than 90  % of the families observed the presence of ash. An adjusted odds ratio of 3.11 [95  % confidence interval 1.62-5.97] for itchy/ @entity735 and 3.02 [1.41-6.44] for sore throat was obtained. Significant interaction terms for @entity2490 and @entity565 in itchy/ @entity735 and sneezing, and only @entity565 for sore throat were obtained. Exposure to wildfire smoke was associated with increased respiratory symptoms in this @entity1 population, particularly affecting susceptible individuals with @entity565 or @entity2490 .
