The present study investigated the impact of environmental pollution, represented in soil,irrigation water and air heavy metals, on the growth and production of Egyptian clovercultivated at south Greater Cairo, Egypt. Plants were sampled through five quadrats (0.5×0.5m), distributed equally in four cultivated farms in unpolluted and polluted sites, at theharvesting time. In addition, soil, air ...

Exposure to diesel exhaust is an important cardiovascular risk factor and may promote atherothrombotic events. Some data suggest that polluted air exposure could affect haemostasis through platelet activation. The aim of the study was to investigate the effects of acute exposure to diesel exhaust on platelet activation and platelet function. We tested the hypothesis in a randomised, crossover s...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of exercise on the aerobic power, serum lactate level, and cell blood count among active individuals in the environments with similar climatic characteristics differing in their level of air pollution. METHODS This trial comprised 20 volunteer students of Physical education in The University of Isfahan, Iran. Two places with the s...

Ambient environmental air pollutants include gaseous and particulate components. In polluted air, especially particulate matter seems responsible for cardiovascular complications: It consists of a heterogeneous mixture of solid and liquid particles with different diameters ranging from large thoracic to ultrafine particles, with a diameter <100 nm. Ultrafines can penetrate deeply into the lung ...

As the largest developing country in the world, China has achieved rapid economic development, averaging an annual gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate of 10% over the past two decades. But this success comes at the cost of deterioration of the environment. China's environmental problems, including outdoor and indoor air pollution, water shortages and pollution, desertification, and soil po...

Air pollution in large cities has been a major and a serious environmental problem all over the world; hence, many countries initiated air quality management systems to monitor and control pollution rates around big cities. It was found that harmful emission into the air is a symbol for environmental force that affects seriously man’s health, natural life and agriculture; thus leading to major ...

Introduction: The Moravian-Silesian Region (MSR) is heavily polluted, especially due to heavy industry and local heating, and concentrations of benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P) are among the highest in the European Union. Methods: To verify the impact of air pollution on the health of the population in the MSR, the morbidity of children was analysed in three studies which are reviewed: 1) morbidity in ch...

1. introduction one of the most important conditions to have dusty weather beside of unstable weather is existence or non-existence of humidity. unstable weather having enough humidity will produce rain and thunder storm, else if the result will be dust storm. number of particles of dusty storm is depended to wind speed, sec of soil and its dimension. furthermore, vegetation type has importance...

The objective of the present study was to determine the impact of acute short-term exposure to air pollution on the cardiorespiratory performance of military firemen living and working in the city of Guarujá, São Paulo, Brazil. Twenty-five healthy non-smoking firemen aged 24 to 45 years had about 1 h of exposure to low and high levels of air pollution. The tests consisted of two phases: phase A...