BACKGROUND Preventing suicide is a global imperative. Although the effects of social and individual risk factors of suicide have been widely investigated, evidence of environmental effects of exposure to air pollution is scarce. We investigated the effects of ambient air pollution on suicide mortality in Guangzhou, China during 2003-2012. METHODS A conditional logistic regression analysis wit...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to examine the association between ambient air pollution and hospitalization for respiratory infections among children who were younger than 15 years in Toronto during a 4-year period (1998-2001). METHODS Exposures averaged during periods that varied from 1 to 7 days were used to assess the effects of air pollutants, including thoracic particulate matt...

OBJECTIVES The role of outdoor air pollution in the incidence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) remains unclear. We investigated this question using a large, nationally representative cohort based on primary care records linked to hospital admissions. METHODS A cohort of 812 063 patients aged 40-89 years registered with 205 English general practices in 2002 without a COPD diagno...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to present a technique for estimating the effect of ambient air pollution mix on health outcomes. MATERIAL AND METHODS We created a technique of indexing air pollution mix as a cause of the increased odds of health problems. As an illustrative example, we analyzed the impact of pollution on the frequency of emergency department (ED) visits due to col...

the study was aimed to investigate the change of some fatty acids to ambient air pollution in four legumes species Pisum sativum L. and (Vicia faba L.m and during summer season were Glycine max and Vigna sinensis grown in five sites mostly affected by high traffic intensity and or industrial activities in Riyadh city capital of Saudi Arabia. The results showed increasing of air pollution (O3, N...

Over 200,000 tourists per year visit Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Nova Scotia, Canada. The forests within the park are home to many rare epiphytic lichens, the species diversity of which has declined in some areas. The primary motivation for this study was to gain insight into the concentrations and potential local and long-range sources of air pollution, but its association with lichen...

Ambient nitrogen dioxide (NO2) concentrations are regularly measured at only two monitoring stations in the city centre of Ljubljana, and such scanty data are inadequate for drawing conclusions about spatial patterns of pollution within the city, or to decide on effective measures to further improve air quality. In order to determine the spatial distribution of NO2 concentrations in different t...