Particulate air pollution

Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease

Exposure to particulate matter (PM) air pollution contributes to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.

Department of Environmental Conservation Division of Air Quality Air Non-Point and Mobile Sources fine particulate pollution video

Spatio-temporal modeling of particulate air pollution in the ...

Exposure to atmospheric particulate matter (PM) remains an important public health concern, although it remains difficult to quantify ...

Air pollution - Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Although death rates from air pollution overall have dropped by 46% from 1990 to 2021, the total number of deaths caused by ambient particulate ...

The relation between past exposure to fine particulate air pollution ...

The relation between past exposure to fine particulate air pollution and prevalent anxiety: observational cohort study

Particulate Air Pollution and Daily Mortality: The Phase I Report of ...

The Phase I.B Report of the Particle Epidemiology Evaluation Project. The Health Effects Institute began the Particle Epidemiology Evaluation Project in ...

Cleaner Air | US Department of Transportation

Many scientific studies have linked breathing particulate matter to significant health problems, including asthma, chronic bronchitis, and heart ...

Background & Purpose. The International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified ambient outdoor pollution, including fine particulate matter (PM2.5, ...

Particulate air pollution and impaired lung function. - F1000Research

Of the most common air pollutants, particulate matter (PM) is associated with an increased risk of exacerbations and respiratory symptoms in ...

Inflammatory markers and particulate air pollution - Oxford Academic

The findings of the study support the hypothesis that particles can induce cardiovascular disease through inflammatory pathways.

Current Status, Characteristics and Causes of Particulate Air ...

Song et al., 2017). Particulate matter (PM) is one of the air pollutants of greatest concern because it can have adverse effects on human health ...

Particulate Air Pollution Needs to Be Controlled to Protect Public ...

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health have found that in spite of improved efforts to control air pollution, pollution by ...

COMEAP mortality effects of long term exposure to particulate air ...

That air pollution impacts on health is in no doubt and indeed has been the driver for improvements in air quality worldwide. The size of this impact has, ...

Source apportionment study on particulate air pollution in two high ...

This study demonstrates that PM 10 concentrations in La Paz and El Alto region are predominantly influenced by a limited number of local sources.

AirNow.gov

AirNow is your one-stop source for air quality data. Our recently redesigned site highlights air quality in your local area first, while still providing air ...

Fine particulate air pollution and its components in association with ...

Conclusions. We found that PM2.5 mass higher in Ni, As, and Cr, as well as Br and OC significantly increased its effect on hospital admissions.

Monitoring Particulate Air Pollution and Human Health in Africa

The MAIA-EVI epidemiological study plans for Ethiopia include investigations of the association between exposure to ambient PM and sub-chronic health effects.

Damage estimates of particulate matter air pollution reported in study

Goodkind and his co-authors find that 33% of damages occur within 8 km of emission sources, but 25 percent occur more than 150 miles away. Those ...

Air Pollutants – Fine Particles - Care4Air

As well as these effects, long-term exposure to particulate air pollution is associated with a decrease in life expectancy. The higher the average particle ...

Cardiopulmonary Mortality and Fine Particulate Air Pollution by ...

(1) Specifically, cardiopulmonary mortality has consistently been associated with fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5). (2−4) PM2.5 is ...