Developmental toxicity caused by exposure to a mixture of environmental pollutants has become a major health concern. Human-made chemicals, including xenoestrogens, pesticides and heavy metals, as well as unhealthy lifestyle behaviours, mainly tobacco smoking, alcohol consumption and medical drug abuse, are major factors that adversely influence prenatal development and increase susceptibility ...

A physical modeling approach for identification of source regions of primary and secondary air pollutants J. C. F. Lo, A. K. H. Lau, Z. B. Yuan, J. C. H. Fung, and F. Chen Atmospheric, Marine and Coastal Environment Program, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, P. R. China Environmental Central Facility, Institute for the Environment, The Hong Kong University of Scienc...

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THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE LUNG 27S daily symptoms to daily levels of air pollutants, and 2) to act as a surveillance tool for acute respiratory illness (AR!). The ARIs were detected with the aid of the daily diaries and when a child was detected with an AR! he/she was called to the clinic for direct observation. If it was a true AR!, pulmonary function tests were conducted twice during the sympto...

OBJECTIVE A growing body of evidence suggests that environmental pollutants, such as heavy metals, persistent organic pollutants and plasticizers play an important role in the development of chronic diseases. Most epidemiologic studies have examined environmental pollutants individually, but in real life, we are exposed to multi-pollutants and pollution mixtures, not single pollutants. Although...

In recent years, preservation and purgation of rivers is considered by national and international organizations that have responsible of quality control and preservation of water resources. Because of providing public health, it is most important and vital in regions that cities that rivers feed drink waters and large industrial factories located near these rivers (Li et al., 1998; Pourabadei &...

With the economic development of China, air pollutants are also growing rapidly in recent decades, especially in big cities of the country. To understand the relationship between economic condition and air pollutants in big cities, we analysed the socioeconomic indictors such as Gross Regional Product per capita (GRP per capita), the concentration of air pollutants (PM10, SO2, NO2) and the air ...