... fine particulate air pollution and
respiratory outcomes in adults using two national
datasets: a cross-sectional study
Keeve E Nachman
1*
and Jennifer D Parker
2
Abstract
Background: Relationships ... social class in asthma. Thorax 2009,
64:38-43.
doi:10.1186/1476-069X-11-25
Cite this article as: Nachman and Parker: Exposures to fine particulate...
... level
has played a critical role in efforts to establish and evalu-
ate ambient air quality standards and related public
health policy. This information is also vital in economic
and public policy analyses ... extracted PM was found to elicit acute
airway injury and in ammation in experimentally ex-
posed rats
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and humans.
337
In ammatory lung injury,
in vitro o...
... wastes that are 25
discharged to lakes or rivers and solid wastes that are incinerated. Both coal- and 26
uranium-mining operations result in the release of chemicals into ground and surface ... Introduction 13
Air pollution and global warming are two of the greatest threats to human and animal 14
health and political stability. Energy insecurity and rising prices...
... data were provided by all
national, provincial and municipal authorities in the
study area and were linked to a digital map of all road s
in the Netherlands (NWB), using GIS. Other land use
data ... to work in
the area of Amsterdam, around 60 km away. No free-
ways are present in the study area. Two highways,
known as p rovincial roads in the Netherlands, with a...
... PM
2.5
morbidity,
particularly in the cardiovascular signal. The various re-
analyses and updates of the ACS study indicate that the
chronic mortality signal in this database is cardiovascular
in nature and ... R.D.;
Aguinaldo, J.G.S.; Fayad, Z .A. ; Fuster, V.; Lippmann, M.; Chen, L.C.;
Rajagopalan, S. Long-Term Air Pollution Exposure and Acceleration of
Atherosclerosis an...
... level
has played a critical role in efforts to establish and evalu-
ate ambient air quality standards and related public
health policy. This information is also vital in economic
and public policy analyses ... extracted PM was found to elicit acute
airway injury and in ammation in experimentally ex-
posed rats
339
and humans.
337
In ammatory lung injury,
in vitro o...
... and
mortality from respiratory and cardiovascular diseases increase with levels of particulate air
pollution below the current national ambient air quality standard for particulate matter in
the USA. Critics ... the authors' use of an approximate two- stage Bayesian analysis to be particularly
interesting. The approach is heuristically appealing and is in fact...
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Department I, Latin America and the Caribbean Region. Washington, DC: World Bank.
Maquiladoras, Air Pollution, and Human Health
In Ciudad Juárez and El Paso
Allen Blackman, Michael Batz, and ... evidence links such air
pollution to respiratory and cardiovascular disease, and to premature mortality (U.S. EPA 1999).
In addition, air pollution damages visibi...
... temperature on skin
and upper airway sym ptoms was investigated and
showed that skin dryness and rashes, pharyngeal
dryness, and nasal dryness and congestion are al-
leviated by higher humidity, and ... 2068–2076.
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1-hexanol in indoo...