Acute Respiratory Effects of Particulate Air Pollution

Acute Effects of Fine Particulate Air Pollution on Cardiac Electrophysiology

Health effects of particulate air pollution.

In the 1980's it was generally felt that particulate air pollution concentrations in the United States were not a hazard to the public health. However, in the early 1990's the application of econometric time-series studies and prospective cohort studies suggested increased mortality associated with acute (daily) and chronic (decades) exposures to particulate air pollution commonly observed in t...

Particulate air pollution and respiratory disease in Anchorage, Alaska.

This paper examines the associations between average daily particulate matter less than 10 microns in diameter (PM10) and temperature with daily outpatient visits for respiratory disease including asthma, bronchitis, and upper respiratory illness in Anchorage, Alaska, where there are few industrial sources of air pollution. In Anchorage, PM10 is composed primarily of earth crustal material and ...

Air pollution and multiple acute respiratory outcomes.

Short-term effects of air pollutants on respiratory mortality and morbidity have been consistently reported but usually studied separately. To more completely assess air pollution effects, we studied hospitalisations for respiratory diseases together with out-of-hospital respiratory deaths. A time-stratified case-crossover study was carried out in six Italian cities from 2001 to 2005. Daily par...

Particulate Air Pollution Exposures and Childhood Acute Respiratory Infections in Guatemala: A Randomized Intervention

Nature and Purpose: Our primary goal is to conduct the first randomized controlled intervention trial ever performed with relation to public air pollution exposures, thus increasing confidence in air pollution risk estimates, which are based now on observational studies. To do so, we randomly introduced a previously proven exposure-reduction technology (an improved cooking stove called a Planch...