*Correspondence: Dennis Y. C. Leung, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong e-mail: [email protected] With the continual improvement in our quality of life, indoor air quality has become an important area of concern in the twenty-first century. Indoor air quality is affected by many factors including the type and running conditions of indoor polluti...

Indoor air pollution has been causally linked to acute lower respiratory infections in children younger than 5. The aim of this study was to identify target behaviors for a behavioral intervention to reduce child exposure to indoor air pollution by attempting to answer two research questions: Which behaviors are protective of child respiratory health in the study context? and Which behaviors do...

RATIONALE The aim of this study was to determine the effects of indoor air pollution exposure on respiratory symptoms and illnesses in non-smoking women in Niš, Serbia. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study was carried out in 1,082 never-smoking females, aged 20-40 years, who were not occupationally exposed to indoor air pollution. The prevalence of respiratory symptoms and illnesses was assessed u...

asthma is one of the most common diseases in childhood, which has been increased during last decade because of epidemiological pattern changes with climate and industrialization of the communities. there are some controversies on the relationship between air pollution and asthma. tehran, as the capital of iran, is one of the densest populations and is one of the most polluted cities in the worl...

background & purpose: air pollution has been known as one of the most effective factors on cardiovascular, pulmonary and infectious diseases. this study aims to determine the relation between mortality rate and air pollution in mashhad during 2007-2009. materials & methods: data of air pollution, mortality rate and geographic factors were collected during 2007-2009 and analyzed. mortality rate,...

development of a green belt with suitable plant species around the source of emission can mitigate the atmospheric contamination. selection of such plant species are required to combat air pollution based on their tolerance level. present study was undertaken to evaluate the tolerance level of higher plants in east of esfahan city, iran, during 2011 in terms of assessing air pollution tolerance...

Seven million premature deaths in the year 2012 could be attributable to air pollution, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) in its last Burden of Disease report [1]. Around 4.3 out of 7 million were caused by ambient air pollution and 3.7 million by household air pollution. In recent years, evidence regarding air pollution effects on the child respiratory system are growing conside...

Air pollution is becoming a major health problem that affects millions of people worldwide. In support of this observation, the World Health Organization estimates that every year, 2.4 million people die because of the effects of air pollution on health. Mitigation strategies such as changes in diesel engine technology could result in fewer premature mortalities, as suggested by the US Environm...

background: the incomplete burning of fuel in engine of vehicles, evaporation of petrol from gas stations, and also car carburetor cause unburned hydrocarbons to be emitted in ambient air of cities and gas station locations. from unburned hydrocarbons; monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon influence to citizen's health and benzene is known as carcinogenic compounds. the objectives of this study are t...

The association between ambient air pollution exposure and hospitalization for cardiovascular events has been reported in several studies with conflicting results. A case-crossover design was used to investigate the effects of air pollution in 660 first-time myocardial infarction cases in Stockholm in 1993-1994, interviewed shortly after diagnosis using a standard protocol. Air pollution data c...