background: the objective of this study was to measure the total suspended particulate (tsp), pm 10 and pm 2.5 air particulates in the selected intercity bus stations located in the central square of hamadan, to review the distribution concentration of the air particulates content and to evaluate its possible health risk to the people who spent little time of their daily time in those places. m...

background: it has been shown that inhalation of carbonaceous particulate matter may impair lung function in children. objective: using the carbon content of airway macrophages as a marker of individual exposure to particulate matter derived from fossil fuel, we sought direct evidence for this association. methods: 300 children from puffed rice industrial areas and 300 children from population ...

this study aimed to determine the effect of land use changes from rangeland to horti-agricultural lands on the most important qualitative characteristics of soil such as total soil carbon and particulate organic matter, in salavatabad region, sanandaj. in the present study, one rangeland, two cultivated pea lands, two cultivated wheat lands and two gardens were selected in growth season in the ...

The mechanisms by which exposure to particulate matter increases the risk of cardiovascular events are not known. Recent human and animal data suggest that particulate matter may induce alterations in hemostatic factors. In this study we determined the mechanisms by which particulate matter might accelerate thrombosis. We found that mice treated with a dose of well characterized particulate mat...

conclusions to reduce the impacts of particulate matter on health status of people in ilam, necessary training by health systems should be conducted for people, especially those with chronic lung and heart diseases, the elderly and children to reduce their activities on the dusty days. methods pm10 data was taken from the ilam environmental protection agency. the annual morbidity including hosp...

today, the cement industry is one of the major air polluting industries in the world. hence, in this study, owing to the importance and role of contaminants from the plant, an appraisal of the emission contributions in addition to other factors have been discussed. there are several reasons behind the importance of modeling air pollutants. first, the assessment of standards for air pollution, a...

mobasheri mr * (phd), hejazi a (msc)     department of remote sensing, kntoosi university of technology, tehran, iran     original article   received: 16 jan 2014, accepted: 21 apr 2014       abstract     introduction: air pollution may affect health through increasing respiratory and cardiovascular morbidities and mortalities. in this study, we investigated the correlation between the concentr...

Exposure to airborne particulate matter has been linked to cardiovascular events. Whether this finding reflects an effect of particulate matter exposure on the triggering of events or development of atherosclerosis remains unknown. Using data from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis collected at baseline (2000-2002), the authors investigated associations of 20-year exposures to particulat...