Cerebrovascular disease in South Asia – Part I: A burning problem

Cerebrovascular disease in South Asia – Part II: Risk factors and prevention

In South Asian countries, conventional vascular risk factors like hypertension, diabetes mellitus, cardiac disease, smoking, obesity, atrial fibrillation are the dominant ones, while other aetiologies like rheumatic heart disease, infective meningitis-related infarcts and postpartum cerebral venous thrombosis also constitute a big fraction. This review discusses the evidence of prevalence of va...

Analysis of black carbon and carbon monoxide observed over the Indian Ocean: Implications for emissions and photochemistry

[1] Air from South Asia carries heavy loadings of organic and light-absorbing aerosol but low concentrations of ozone. We investigate ambient pollutant concentrations measured during the IndianOcean Experiment (INDOEX), andwe estimate emissions to determine the origin, magnitude, and impacts of air pollution from South Asia and to understand better the uncertainty in emission inventories. In In...

Supplement of Influence of biomass burning from South Asia at a high-altitude mountain receptor site in China

Space-based formaldehyde measurements as constraints on volatile organic compound emissions in east and south Asia and implications for ozone

[1] We use a continuous 6-year record (1996–2001) of GOME satellite measurements of formaldehyde (HCHO) columns over east and south Asia to improve regional emission estimates of reactive nonmethane volatile organic compounds (NMVOCs), including isoprene, alkenes, HCHO, and xylenes. Mean monthly HCHO observations are compared to simulated HCHO columns from the GEOS-Chem chemical transport model...

Epidemiology of metabolic syndrome in Asia.

Metabolic syndrome (MS) is a rising disease entity characterized by a clustering of metabolic conditions. Although prevalence of obesity as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) is relatively low in Asia compared to western countries, metabolic syndrome is growing into a significant public health problem. Comparative studies indicate that metabolic responses to obesity may be greater i...