Air Pollution and Liver Enzymes

Air pollution and liver enzymes.

To the Editor: Growing evidence indicates that elevated levels of the liver enzymes γ-glutamyltransferase (GGt), aspartate transaminase (ASt), and alanine transaminase (ALt) are independently associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD).1–4 GGt may also increase due to environmental pollution.1 Ambient particulate matter has been shown to induce oxidative stress and being link...

Air Pollution and Health

Air pollution and health.

OBJECTIVE To review the effects of air pollution on health, with special reference to data obtained locally in Hong Kong. DATA SOURCES Medline literature search (1960-1999), websites of the World Health Organization and Environmental Protection Department, Hong Kong, and a report from the Sub-Working Group on the Review of Hong Kong's Air Quality Objectives, 1999. STUDY SELECTION Key words ...

Asthma and air pollution

During the last decades research all over the world has highlighted the deleterious effects of pollution on respiratory health of adults and children. Nevertheless, air pollution still represents a significant threat to health. Children are more sensitive than adults to pollutants for several factors: increased respiration relative to body size; physiologic immaturity of respiratory and immunol...

Air Pollution and Mortality

CONTROL? While there are a great many community based models for injury prevention in the scientific literature, the same cannot be said for evidence of their effectiveness. Researchers in Australia performed a comprehensive literature search for formally evaluated community based all cause child injury prevention programmes and succeeded in finding a total of only nine published examples. Only...