• Airborne fine particulate matter was responsible for the premature deaths of around 417,000 people across Europe in 2018, according to the European Environment Agency, prompting renewed calls for ambitious new anti-pollution measures. (endseurope.com)
  • Indoor air monitoring in kitchens for particulate matter (PM), total volatile organic compounds (TVOC), carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and carbon monoxide (CO) was conducted using indoor air quality monitors. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Exposure of human populations to smoke emitted by these fires increases, thereby contributing to airborne pollution through the emission of gas and particulate matter (PM). The adverse health outcomes associated with wildland fire exposure represent an important burden on the economies and health systems of societies. (frontiersin.org)
  • Evidence suggests particulate matter is the air pollutant which poses the greatest threat to global health. (medicalxpress.com)
  • Particulate matter (PM) air pollution ranks as one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide [1]. (cdc.gov)
  • The WHO global urban ambient air pollution database (2016 update) shows that levels of air pollution with particulate matter in the Region were the highest in the world during the period 2008-2015. (who.int)
  • Significant declines in systolic blood pressure and lung function were observed in the kitchen workers with MAU at both locations compared to those of the control subjects. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Among those who were less happy ('others'), an interquartile increase in fine particulate air pollution was associated with a 2.86% (95%CI 0.41, 5.31) increase in systolic blood pressure, a 1.70% (95% CI 0.07, 3.33) decrease in forced vital capacity (FVC), and a 1.59% (95% CI 0.09, 3.08) decrease in the FEV1/FVC ratio (ratio of percent predicted 1-second forced expiratory volume (FEV1) to FVC). (witpress.com)
  • Levels of stress hormones, systolic blood pressure and biomarkers of oxidative stress and inflammation were significantly lower when using real air purifiers," said study author Haidong Kan, MD, PhD. "Although we found significant health benefits with air purifiers, the actual health protection people could get from air purifiers in real living conditions is still not well-determined. (pharmacytimes.com)
  • Association between annual exposure to air pollution and systolic blood pressure among adolescents in Montréal, Canada. (bvsalud.org)
  • The present study is an attempt to explore the association between kitchen indoor air pollutants and physiological profiles in kitchen workers with microalbuminuria (MAU) in north India (Lucknow) and south India (Coimbatore). (biomedcentral.com)
  • The study showed that occupational exposure to multiple kitchen indoor air pollutants (ultrafine particles, PM 2.5 , PM 1 , TVOC, CO, CO 2 ) and FTIR-derived compounds can be associated with a decline in lung function (restrictive and obstructive patterns) in kitchen workers with microalbuminuria. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Despite a decline in emissions of general air pollutants, the ultimate goal of avoiding all harmful effects on health, vegetation, water and soil has still to be achieved. (europa.eu)
  • Often these are transboundary effects, as pollutants in the air can travel a considerable distance away from their source. (europa.eu)
  • While the tower does partially rid the air of some pollutants like PM2.5 and PM10, it is not done in a large enough radius and scale for it to have a noticeable impact or to be economically viable. (wn.com)
  • Some 150 petroleum refineries nationwide spew out more than 20,000 tons of hazardous air pollutants each year, including chemicals linked to cancer such as benzene and toluene. (environmentalintegrity.org)
  • Our results demonstrated that air pollutants had both short-term and long-term effects on hypertension risks," study author Tao Liu, PhD, deputy director of the environmental health division in the Guangdong Provincial Institute of Public Health in Guangzhou, China, told HealthDay . (renalandurologynews.com)
  • Associations of Short-Term and Long-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollutants With Hypertension A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. (renalandurologynews.com)
  • My colleagues Neelakshi Hudda , Misha Eliasziw and I tested how using air filters indoors near a highway can reduce exposure to ultrafine and other particulate pollutants - and what effect that has on blood pressure. (theconversation.com)
  • Since the source of these pollutants isn't going away anytime soon, I think one good way to try to improve the health of people living near busy roads is by cleaning the air in their houses . (theconversation.com)
  • While emissions of some pollutants have declined sharply in Europe in recent decades, more diesel cars and a rise in wood burning by households as a cheap alternative to gas mean other types of harmful pollution are receding more slowly. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • Ground-level ozone pollution - formed indirectly by a combination of sunlight and mixtures of other pollutants in the atmosphere - inflicts huge damage on EU crop production, particularly in Mediterranean countries such as Italy, France and Spain. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • For example, some air pollutants -- called PM1 -- are less than a single micron in diameter, making it invisible to the naked eye. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Discharges of chemical agents (drugs, disinfectants, heavy metals, and other pollutants) into the environment can accelerate the lateral movement of resistance genes across bacterial populations by increasing selective pressure for maintenance of mobile genetic elements (MGEs) ( 4 ) or by increasing the rate of gene transfer ( 5 ). (cdc.gov)
  • The limited studies available indicate that at least half of air pollution in the Region occurs naturally from pollutants such as sand, dust and sea salt, and the rest is generated from human activities including transport and industry. (who.int)
  • The plan of action takes into consideration the regional context including climate and local air pollutants, availability of monitoring data and the status of national surveillance systems and policies for controlling air pollution. (who.int)
  • The investigators discovered significant changes in 97 blood serum metabolites after exposure to air pollution. (pharmacytimes.com)
  • Patients with chronic lung and heart conditions caused or worsened by long-term exposure to air pollution are less able to fight off lung infections and more likely to die. (epha.org)
  • This high burden of disease reflects a range of adverse cardiopulmonary health effects that have been associated with air pollution exposures [2, 3] and the fact that exposure to air pollution is involuntary - we must breathe where we are, regardless of the air quality. (cdc.gov)
  • THURSDAY, Sept. 28, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Exposure to air pollution, even for just a short time, drives up your risk of having a stroke over the next few days, new research warns. (msdmanuals.com)
  • 2017). Together with PM2.5, ozone is a major contributor to air pollution-related morbidity and mortality, with an estimated 4,700 ozone-related deaths in the United States in 2005 (Fann et al. (cdc.gov)
  • Effect of exposure to PM2.5 on blood pressure: a systematic. (lww.com)
  • In regards to the pollution that Phuket sees, going off the numbers of PM2.5 recorded in 2019, Phuket came in with a yearly average of 11.4 µg/m³. (iqair.com)
  • To be classed as having good air quality (not just a descriptive but an actual category used to determine air quality based on numbers) requires a PM2.5 reading of 10 to 12 µg/m³, a very fine margin of a rating to achieve. (iqair.com)
  • Researchers also know that particulate air pollution affects cardiovascular health , but most work has focused on larger particles, called PM2.5. (theconversation.com)
  • We used a portable air quality monitor to collect fine particle (PM2.5) levels over a minimum of 30 minutes in areas where smoking was allowed,, and calculated mean time-time weighted average PM2.5 levels. (who.int)
  • Local and transboundary air pollution are considered as one environmental issue in this report, since the effects of air pollution are interrelated through common causes and common impacts. (europa.eu)
  • Does Emotional Health Influence Susceptibility To The Physiologic Effects Of Air Pollution On Adults? (witpress.com)
  • In the Canadian population, the degree of happiness may modify the vulnerability to the adverse health effects of air pollution. (witpress.com)
  • However, the authors found that air purifiers lessen the effects of air pollution in this population. (pharmacytimes.com)
  • In May 2015 the Sixty-eighth World Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA68.8, in which the Director-General was requested, inter alia, to propose to the Sixty-ninth World Health Assembly a road map for an enhanced global response to the adverse effects of air pollution. (who.int)
  • The regional plan of action for implementation of the road map for an enhanced global health response to the adverse effects of air pollution is presented in Annex 1. (who.int)
  • The road map, which was adopted by the Health Assembly in May 2016, is intended as a tool to enable the health sector to take a leading role in raising awareness both of the impacts of air pollution on health and of opportunities for public health. (who.int)
  • Cumulative environmental burden can be understood as the sum of activities that cause environmental pollution or negatively affect environmental and human health (Owusu et al. (cdc.gov)
  • The main environmental problems associated with air emissions are harm to human health, the acidification and eutrophication of water and soils, and damage to natural ecosystems, cultural heritage and crops. (europa.eu)
  • Lead investigator Perry Hystad, an environmental epidemiologist, said the research also showed that reducing the concentration of outdoor air pollution would lead to improved cardiovascular fitness. (drweil.com)
  • In this paper, we present a distributed infrastructure based on wireless sensors network and Grid computing technology for air pollution monitoring and mining, which aims to develop low-cost and ubiquitous sensor networks to collect real-time, large scale and comprehensive environmental data from road traffic emissions for air pollution monitoring in urban environment. (mdpi.com)
  • And, while the recipe for cleaner air could cause some industries to suffer, others are expecting a potential windfall with the rollout of new environmental measures. (upenn.edu)
  • Although China has made efforts to calculate the cost of pollution in the past, with a 'Green GDP' effort spearheaded by the country's Ministry of Environmental Protection, those numbers were never released. (upenn.edu)
  • WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 29, 2015 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today released new air standards that tighten restrictions on the pollution oil refineries can emit and reduce the health risks millions of Americans face from breathing toxic air. (environmentalintegrity.org)
  • EPA took action to review and update these standards as a result of a 2012 settlement in a lawsuit filed by Earthjustice and the Environmental Integrity Project on behalf of community and environmental groups in California, Louisiana, and Texas when the EPA missed its deadline under the Clean Air Act to review toxic air standards for oil refineries. (environmentalintegrity.org)
  • Air pollution is dangerously high across many parts of Europe, resulting in premature deaths, ill health and huge economic losses linked to reduced crop yields, Europe's environmental watchdog said yesterday. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • Policies to support this include protecting 30 per cent of land in the UK by 2030, introducing subsidies for farmers to provide environmental goods and implementing clean air zones in cities to make polluters pay for emissions. (bigissue.com)
  • He hopes politicians create laws to protect people from environmental stressors and "take into account in particular the new findings concerning noise pollution and cardiovascular disease and to acknowledge noise as a cardiovascular risk factor," he said. (medscape.com)
  • People with cardiovascular risk factors should be especially aware of the risks of air pollution, even on a short-term basis, as indicated in this study," said Dr. Jesus Araujo , a professor of medicine at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and a professor of environmental health sciences with UCLA's Fielding School of Public Health. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Policies to reduce emissions are increasingly considering various pollution problems together in a multi-pollutant, multi-effect approach ( Figure 10.1 ). (europa.eu)
  • Prohibited all uncontrolled air pollution emissions from pressure relief valves and other similar devices. (environmentalintegrity.org)
  • In the last decade, tighter European regulations on power stations and other sources of pollution have seen a 50 percent cut in emissions of sulphur dioxide, which causes acid rain, while carbon monoxide emissions have fallen by a third. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • Next to busy highways and major roadways, there are high concentrations of air pollution - including exceptionally tiny, invisible and odorless ultrafine particles from burning fuel. (theconversation.com)
  • Combined with recent WHO findings that lower concentrations of air pollution can be more harmful than previously thought, pressure is building on the European Union to do more. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • India has the highest mortality rate due to indoor and outdoor air pollution sources [ 6 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Both indoor and outdoor air pollution levels are quite high in many countries of the Region. (who.int)
  • EM/RC63/R.1 in which it requested WHO to submit to the 64th session of the Regional Committee an evidence-based plan of action for the regional implementation of the global road map to address the health impacts of indoor and outdoor air pollution. (who.int)
  • The research team identified a five percent increase in all cardiovascular events among the participants for every 10 microgram-per-cubic-meter rise in the concentration of air pollution particles smaller than 2.5 microns (these particles are 50 times smaller in width than a human hair). (drweil.com)
  • The levels of particulates smaller than 2.5 micrometers - fine air particulates that pose the biggest health risk, which are considered safe at readings of around 25 parts per million - reached almost 900. (upenn.edu)
  • We know that tiny air pollutant particles can penetrate deep into the lungs and that exposure to them is linked to increased risks of respiratory disease and cancer as well as heart attack and stroke. (drweil.com)
  • Air quality risks are 'off the charts' in Ottawa as smoke and haze cover large sections of central Canada. (cbc.ca)
  • Reliance on unclean fuels, such as solid fuels and kerosene, for cooking, heating and lighting is a major source of indoor air pollution in some countries. (who.int)
  • More than one third of individuals in the Region are exposed to second-hand tobacco smoke, another major source of indoor air pollution. (who.int)
  • World-wide that means that 14 percent of the cardiovascular events documented can be attributed to tiny air pollutant particles. (drweil.com)
  • Depending on the specific nature of the pollutant in question, stroke risk rose anywhere from 5% to 28% within less than a week after first being exposed to high levels of air pollution. (msdmanuals.com)
  • We manipulated the level of air pollution in the room using portable air filters, windows and doors to create low, medium and high exposures to ultrafine and other particles. (theconversation.com)
  • The difference in blood pressure between high and low exposures was relatively small, below 3 mm of mercury. (theconversation.com)
  • PM and health because the epidemiological studies that rely on area measurements from central ambient air quality monitors to assign `personal' exposures are subject to exposure misclassification [8]. (cdc.gov)
  • Associations between APOL1 genetic variants and blood pressure in African American mothers and children from a U.S. pregnancy cohort: Modification by air pollution exposures. (cdc.gov)
  • Both acute and long-term exposure to elevated levels of ozone in air are associated with negative health effects ranging from increased morbidity and mortality due to respiratory and cardiovascular disease (Crouse et al. (cdc.gov)
  • Earlier this year, major cities throughout China experienced record-breaking levels of pollution, increasing the pressure on the government and industry to take steps to improve air quality in the nation. (upenn.edu)
  • In a study released last year, Greenpeace pegged the cost of pollution in Beijing at around US$328 million, based on levels measured in 2010. (upenn.edu)
  • A special air quality statement remained in place for the city on Wednesday night, saying high levels of pollution had developed due to the wildfires in Quebec and northeastern Ontario. (cbc.ca)
  • But new evidence has come out linking her death to illegal levels of air pollution - so I'm calling for a new inquest into her death. (change.org)
  • New medical research shows that Ella's frequent hospital admissions were linked with spikes of illegal levels of air pollution around our home near the south circular road. (change.org)
  • Air pollution causes around 40,000 premature deaths per year in the UK (1), and levels of nitrogen dioxide have been illegally high since 2010 in the vast majority of urban areas in the UK (2). (change.org)
  • The government has been taken to court three times over the illegal levels of air pollution in the UK and lost each time. (change.org)
  • Authorities in Tehran have closed schools on November 14 because of dangerous levels of pollution in the atmosphere. (rferl.org)
  • Findings from a new study published by Circulation suggest that exposure to high levels of air pollution may also result in increased stress hormone levels and negative metabolic changes in healthy young adults living in China. (pharmacytimes.com)
  • In the short-term, the air purifiers were also observed to reduce stress hormone levels. (pharmacytimes.com)
  • Higher exposure to PM 2.5 was observed to increase stress hormone levels, which is thought to result in high blood pressure and have inflammatory and metabolic effects. (pharmacytimes.com)
  • The observed changes-high blood pressure, insulin resistance, and biomarkers of inflammation and oxidative stress—among those expose to high levels of PM 2.5 likely play a role in negative cardiovascular effects brought on by air pollution exposure, according to the authors. (pharmacytimes.com)
  • In the long term, those living with consistently high levels of air pollution could end up with chronically high blood pressure. (renalandurologynews.com)
  • The tighter proposed limits on PM could pose problems for EU governments, many of which have struggled to meet the existing limits in force since 2010, resulting in up to a third of Europeans being exposed to dangerous levels of PM pollution. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • Despite struggling to meet the limits, cities in Europe - along with the Americas - enjoy relatively low average PM pollution levels compared with those in southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa, WHO data showed. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • We set out to test the hypothesis that pubs from more deprived areas and non food-serving pubs have higher levels of particulate air pollution. (who.int)
  • Peak sound pressure levels (SPLs) from firearms range from approximately 140 to 175 dB. (cdc.gov)
  • 4. Over 90 per cent of people breathe unhealthy levels of air pollution, largely resulting from burning fossil fuels driving climate change. (who.int)
  • His advice: If and when air pollution levels rise, such patients should reduce the amount of time they spend outdoors. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Wildland fire, air pollution and cardiovascular health: is it time to focus on the microvasculature as a risk assessment tool? (frontiersin.org)
  • Due to worsened air quality and increased pollution in Delhi-NCR, more patients are reporting eye redness, itching, and watering. (medindia.net)
  • Hourly readings of the city's Air Quality Index (AQI) being reported by the United States Embassy ran off the scale, which ends at 500, peaking at 755. (upenn.edu)
  • The public is now demanding immediate and material government actions to improve air quality. (upenn.edu)
  • Environment Canada has increased the air quality risk level for Toronto on Wednesday, up from Tuesday, as forest fire smoke continues to blanket the city. (cbc.ca)
  • Environment Canada has increased the risk level for Toronto's Wednesday air quality alert, compared to the day before. (cbc.ca)
  • The federal weather agency predicts Toronto will reach a risk level of nine on the Air Quality Health Index (AQHI) on Thursday. (cbc.ca)
  • The index measures air quality based on how it will impact health. (cbc.ca)
  • There's a ridge over Ontario right now, so it means these winds are consistently bringing in poor air quality,' said Trudy Kidd, an operational metrologist with Environment Canada. (cbc.ca)
  • Environment Canada issued an air quality alert for Toronto on Wednesday as the city faced smoky, hazy conditions from wildfires in Quebec and parts of Ontario. (cbc.ca)
  • Poor air quality will persist into the weekend,' Environment Canada said. (cbc.ca)
  • Air quality and visibility due to the wildfire smoke can fluctuate over short distances and can vary considerably from hour to hour. (cbc.ca)
  • The air quality in Malaysia is reported as the Air Pollution Index (API). (wikipedia.org)
  • What is the current air quality in Phuket? (iqair.com)
  • In terms of the air pollution, Phuket has some of the best air quality in Thailand, for a number of reasons, with its geographical location playing a large role in keeping the quality of its air clean. (iqair.com)
  • This is a pertinent topic when it comes to considering the air quality of any given city around the world. (iqair.com)
  • Many of the surrounding islands or sections of Phuket have a fairly high elevation, and as such would affect how clean the quality of the air is. (iqair.com)
  • This places it within the 'good' air quality bracket, the only city in Thailand to achieve this as a yearly average over 2019. (iqair.com)
  • This puts it at just 1.4 µg/m³ over the World Health Organization's (WHO) target goal on 0 to 10 µg/m³ in terms of how clean the air quality should be. (iqair.com)
  • Many cities in Thailand, even the more polluted ones, usually have several months out of their year where they fall into the WHO's target bracket, although this is usually fairly short lived and lasts on average three to four months out of the year (usually around May until August, although there are exceptions outside of these listed months when the air quality remains very clean). (iqair.com)
  • Get a monitor and contributor to air quality data in your city. (iqair.com)
  • What is the current air quality in Ellensburg? (iqair.com)
  • The latest air quality news and resources. (iqair.com)
  • Where is the cleanest air quality in Ellensburg? (iqair.com)
  • Clean air campaigners at AddressPollution.org have released a new campaign designed to raise awareness of the alarmingly high volumes of toxic air within London which exposes some 2m residents to air quality which falls below legal minimums. (thedrum.com)
  • Devised by creative industry alliance the Central Office for Public Interest (Copi) and AMV BBDO the campaign dovetails with the launch of a new Air Quality Rating which provides a free report for every address in London using data sourced from King's College London. (thedrum.com)
  • This will seek to apply pressure to property developers and estate agents to disclose air quality metrics to potential purchasers. (thedrum.com)
  • The Air Quality Rating is a tool to change these perceptions and shows just how real, and dangerous, air pollution is across the capital, including in some of the wealthiest neighbourhoods. (thedrum.com)
  • I urge every Londoner to check the Air Quality Rating for their address, get informed and take action. (thedrum.com)
  • The initiative will be extended to other UK cities suffering from poor air quality with pollution now becoming a global concern. (thedrum.com)
  • The IoT is also enjoying significant growth within the consumer space, with sensors for temperature, noise, or air quality helping to construct fully connected "smart homes. (techbriefs.com)
  • An installation by artist Michael Pinsky at COP26 features giant pollution pods that mimic the air quality of the future in various cities to show the link between climate change and health. (democracynow.org)
  • XAAD - Pressure-Fed, Internal Mix Air Atomizing Nozzles BETE Fog Nozzle, Inc., one of the world's leading nozzle manufacturers, designs and manufactures the highest quality Industrial Spray Nozzles. (pollutiononline.com)
  • The timing of air quality monitoring stratified to ensure similar distribution of monitoring by day of the week and time of evening between groups. (who.int)
  • A wealth of information has been gathered showing consistent associations among ambient air quality and many adverse health outcomes [4, 5]. (cdc.gov)
  • Author Manuscript associations are important because air quality regulations are currently limited to ambient air quality - regulations have not been implemented indoors, even for public spaces. (cdc.gov)
  • Since then, coverage of the UK's toxic air pollution increased and I began to think this could be the missing link. (change.org)
  • It would pile pressure to clean up our toxic air and make sure what happened to Ella never happens to another child. (change.org)
  • A low pressure system that could bring in cleaner air may arrive by Sunday, Kidd said. (cbc.ca)
  • His latest invention, a smog-busting billboard installed in Monterrey, Mexico, uses a special resin that can transform smog into cleaner air. (inquirer.net)
  • At the same time, we believe that EPA underestimated the full toxic burden from refineries and that the agency should have updated its risk analysis to account for its recent findings that flares and other refinery sources release significantly more pollution than previously reported. (environmentalintegrity.org)
  • According to the EPA, the new rule reduces cancer risk and the threats of other health hazards significantly for more than one million Americans by preventing thousands of tons of toxins from being released into the air every year. (environmentalintegrity.org)
  • In its report, the EEA said PM pollution, particularly in urban areas, posed the greatest risk to human health thanks to its ability to pass directly from the lungs into the bloodstream. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • The team also pinpointed a notable increase in the risk of dying from a stroke within a week following air pollution exposure. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The associated stroke risk depends on the pollution, as some are more harmful than others," explained study author Dr. Ahmad Toubasi , a doctoral student and researcher in the faculty of medicine at the University of Jordan in Amman. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The review also explored the relative risk that followed short-term exposure to very small particles of air pollution versus notably larger particles. (msdmanuals.com)
  • As to why air pollution raises stroke risk in the first place, Toubasi pointed to a number of ways in which pollution harms the body. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Since mid-September in the southwestern French city of Toulouse, a start-up has been trialing a new generation of air purifiers that can help tackle pollution. (inquirer.net)
  • By contrast, the amount of harmful particles and ozone in the air has fallen only slightly. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • As a result, this street furniture captures fine particles and cleans the air as much as 275 trees together. (inquirer.net)
  • The inventor is believed to have made the world's biggest air purifier, which, standing seven meters tall, can capture 30,000 cubic meters of air per hour, as well as 75% of fine particles. (inquirer.net)
  • A prospective study on the influence of meteorologic factors on nosebleeds indicated that air temperature affects epistaxis rates, although the report, which involved 310 patients, did not find the incidence to be linked to air pressure, rainfall, humidity, wind speed, or duration of sunlight. (medscape.com)
  • The Mayor of Toulouse (center) unveils the city's pollution-absorbing artificial tree in September 2020. (inquirer.net)
  • New monitoring and operating requirements to minimize pollution from the harmful burning of waste gas, called flaring. (environmentalintegrity.org)
  • Power plants, including the dirtiest in the country, can upgrade without installing pollution controls. (fsrn.org)
  • Bowing to public pressure, the state's largest supplier of electricity has submitted a voluntary proposal to convert its two oldest, and dirtiest, coal burning plants to natural gas, but as FSRN's Ann Alquist reports from Minneapolis, communities are asking "at what price? (fsrn.org)
  • Jan, For a new house, high efficiency HEPA air cleaners might start helping to handle all the outgassing of chemicals, but more may be needed. (stopafib.org)
  • however, the authors note that their new findings show air pollution's potential health impact. (pharmacytimes.com)
  • Future studies should examine whether the health benefits from short-term air purification can improve long-term health, and whether these findings are also found in people who live in low pollution areas," Dr Kan said. (pharmacytimes.com)
  • Personal monitoring can substantially reduce exposure misclassification and improve the power to detect relationships between particulate pollution and adverse health outcomes. (cdc.gov)
  • Short-term pollution exposure was defined as occurring over a number of days, and long-term exposure over a number of years. (renalandurologynews.com)
  • 2. Meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement could save about a million lives a year worldwide by 2050 through reductions in air pollution alone. (who.int)
  • Armed with these figures the pollution hotspots are being targeted with billboards carrying messages such as 'Location, Location, Lung Disease' and 'These houses cost an arm, leg and lung' as well as an animation of the brain, heart and lungs reacting to pollution. (thedrum.com)
  • Meanwhile, a delegation of mothers from Brazil, Britain, India, Nigeria, Poland and South Africa attended COP26 to deliver their own letter to the summit's president that was signed by about 500 parent groups from 44 countries and calls for limits on air pollution. (democracynow.org)
  • The impacts are already harming health through air pollution, disease, extreme weather events, forced displacement, food insecurity and pressures on mental health. (who.int)
  • They conclude that strategies such as traffic management and regulation and the development of low-noise tires may help reduce noise, and air traffic curfews help reduce hazardous noise, but other strategies are needed. (medscape.com)
  • But it's difficult to pinpoint the exact economic costs of pollution in China -- and just as hard to put a dollar figure on the economic benefits or losses of taking significant action to clean it up. (upenn.edu)
  • Following the pollution of the past winter, the pressure to clean up China's air has never been so acute. (upenn.edu)
  • This generates a pollution read-out with a single click and highlights whether this reading contravenes the World Health Organisation's annual legal limit for clean air. (thedrum.com)
  • In the aftermath of August 14th power outage, utilities successfully lobbied President Bush to weaken clean air rules. (fsrn.org)
  • This artificial tree can suck up pollution and release clean air - and could soon be coming to other city centers. (inquirer.net)
  • 9. Healthy societies rely on well-functioning ecosystems to provide clean air, fresh water, medicines and food security. (who.int)
  • Daily Top News: "World's Saddest Elephant" Passes Away, Climate Change Fuels Surge in Malaria Cases, Fossil Fuel Air Pollution Kills 5 Million Annually, and More! (onegreenplanet.org)
  • It has been estimated that ozone pollution resulted in production losses of 27 million tons of grain in Europe in 2000. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • In a Massachusetts Institute of Technology study released the same year, researchers looked at labor and healthcare costs in 2005 and concluded that China had lost US$112 billion due to air pollution. (upenn.edu)
  • Included in the study were 55 healthy college students who were randomized to receive real or fake air purification systems in their dormitory rooms. (pharmacytimes.com)
  • My colleagues and I are currently enrolling participants for a new study exploring whether there are benefits from placing air filters in people's homes in real-life scenarios. (theconversation.com)
  • The participants in this new study will receive both real and sham air filters and alternate using them for one month at a time each. (theconversation.com)
  • A study by Szyszkowicz et al suggested that an association exists between air pollution exposure and ED visits for epistaxis. (medscape.com)