156 Air pollution and skin aging: Is there a mediator role for air pollution-induced lung inflammation?

Lung Inflammation, Oxidative Stress and Air Pollution

Air pollution and the skin

*Correspondence: Christina V. Antoniou, First Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, “Andreas Sygros” Hospital, University of Athens, 5 I. Dragoumi Street, Athens 16121, Greece e-mail: christinaantoniougr@ yahoo.com The increase of air pollution over the years has major effects on the human skin. The skin is exposed to ultraviolet radiation (UVR) and environmental air pollutants such as...

Lung cancer and air pollution.

Epidemiologic studies over the last 40 years suggest rather consistently that general ambient air pollution, chiefly due to the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels, may be responsible for increased rates of lung cancer. This evidence derives from studies of lung cancer trends, studies of occupational groups, comparisons of urban and rural populations, and case-control and cohort studies using...

Brunekreef relation ? Air pollution and life expectancy : is there a

Air pollution and life expectancy: is there a relation?

The great smog disasters of the past have made clear that air pollution can kill people in a matter of days: extremely high concentrations of air pollution building up under conditions of low wind speed and stable atmospheric conditions have been associated with excess deaths in the Meuse Valley, Belgium (1930); Donora, PA, United States (1948); and London, United Kingdom (1952). In the develop...