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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"ambient air pollutants"”.
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Intraurban Spatiotemporal Variability of Ambient Air Pollutants across Metropolitan St. Louis
<p>Ambient air monitoring networks have been established in the United States since the 1970s to comply with the Clean Air Act. The monitoring networks are primarily used to determine compliance but also provide substantive support to air quality management and air quality research including …
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Post-Translational Modification of Proteins via Ambient Air Pollutants and Endogenous Reactive Species
… can form via the reaction of proteins and urban air pollutants and may have implications in the increase in allergic disease seen worldwide. The reaction of proteins with ozone and nitrogen dioxide has been previously studied in controlled laboratory studies, but not extensively in urban air. In …
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Measuring the Effects of Air Pollution among Persons with Severe Emphysema: The National Emphysema Treatment Trial (NETT)
… receiving LVRS. We evaluated the effects of air pollution on the health of NETT participants. Methods: Data from the NETT study (1998-2003) included 1218 subjects, men and women ages 39-84. We also obtained data from the US Environmental Protection Agency Air Quality Systems database, which …
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Never Smokers -- Are They More Sensitive to the Respiratory Health Effects of Ambient Air Pollution?
… Several studies show an association between ambient particulate matter (PM) and all-cause mortality. The Adventist Health and Smog 1 (AHSMOG-1) study (N=6,338) has previously found associations between ambient air pollution and incident chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) using the …
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Coronary Heart Disease Mortality and long-term Exposure to Ambient Particulate Air Pollutants in Elderly Nonsmoking California Residents
… assess the effect of long-term concentrations of ambient PM on risks of all causes, cardiopulmonary, coronary heart disease (CHD), total cancer, and any mention of nonmalignant respiratory disease (NMRD) mortality.</p> <p>The health effects of long-term ambient air pollution have been studied with …
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Hospital admission patterns of childhood respiratory illness in Cape Town and their association with air pollution and meteorological factors
… analyse the association of such admissions with air pollution indicators and meteorological variables. The first part of the study investigated the admission patterns of coloured and African children under twelve years of age who were diagnosed as suffering from asthma or acute respiratory …
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Impact of Ambient Air Pollution on Survival of Renal Transplant Recipients
<p>There is increasing evidence that ambient air pollution is associated with coronary heart disease morbidity and mortality. This research has focused on the general public and less so on possible sensitive subgroups even though these may have even greater susceptibility to adverse effects of …
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Essays on Environmental Conditions in Cuba
… performance. Chapter 1 examines selected ambient air pollutants and the use of fossil fuels in Cuba, indicators for which there are relatively better available data, as of the “Special Period” extending into recent years. In contrast with prior anecdotally-driven approaches, the empirical …
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A prospective cohort study on ambient air pollution, airborne pollen (and fungal spores) and respiratory morbidities including childhood asthma in adolescents from the Western Cape Province
… effect of short- and long-term exposures to ambient air pollutants as well as fungal spores on asthma-associated outcomes. This study systematically investigated these factors among schoolchildren residing in informal settlements in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Methods: A cohort …