Air Pollution and ASDs: A Deeper Dive into an Environmental Risk Factor

Air Pollution and ASDs: Homing In on an Environmental Risk Factor

Although researchers have begun making significant inroads into understanding the genetic and biological basis for autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and other neurodevelopmental disorders, it's been estimated that environmental factors could account for just over half the risk of developing ASDs. 1 In this issue of EHP, researchers have used data from 1,767 women in the Nurses' Health Study (NHS...

Air pollution: An environmental factor contributing to intestinal disease.

The health impacts of air pollution have received much attention and have recently been subject to extensive study. Exposure to air pollutants such as particulate matter (PM) has been linked to lung and cardiovascular disease and increases in both hospital admissions and mortality. However, little attention has been given to the effects of air pollution on the intestine. The recent discovery of...

Environmental air pollution, emphysema and ionized air.

Environmental air pollution.

The effects of air pollution on health have been recognized for many hundreds of years. In London, during December 1952, a particularly bad smog, which involved extreme elevations of both SO 2 and black smoke, was associated with more than 1,000 extra deaths during a 5-d period (1). The majority of the pollution responsible for smogs is derived from the domestic and industrial burning of fossil...

Air pollution: a new risk factor in ischemic stroke mortality.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Air pollution is known to be associated with cardiovascular disease, but little is known about the occurrence of stroke in relation to air pollution. We investigated the association between acute stroke mortality and air pollution over a 7-year period (January 1991 through December 1997) in Seoul, Korea. METHODS A generalized additive model was used to regress daily str...