The authors conducted a 2-year follow-up of 40 cardiovascular disease patients (mean age = 65.6 years (standard deviation, 5.8)) who underwent repeated measurements of cardiovascular response before and during the 2008 Beijing Olympics (Beijing, China), when air pollution was strictly controlled. Ambient levels of particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter less than 2.5 μm (PM2.5), black c...

The authors conducted a 2-year follow-up of 40 cardiovascular disease patients (mean age = 65.6 years (standard deviation, 5.8)) who underwent repeated measurements of cardiovascular response before and during the 2008 Beijing Olympics (Beijing, China), when air pollution was strictly controlled. Ambient levels of particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter less than 2.5 µm (PM(2.5)), black...

AN electrochemical sensor has previously been reported to provide useful detection of carbon monoxide while exposed to one minimum alveolar concentration of volatile anesthetics. My independent laboratory study yields further evidence supporting the possible utility of electrochemical carbon monoxide sensor measurements in anesthetic gas mixtures. Several scientific investigations have elucidat...

Stebbings, J. H. (1974). Thorax, 29, 505-510. Fractional carbon monoxide uptake in an employed population. The fractional carbon monoxide uptake in 913 New York City transit workers was studied. A prediction equation for white males, based on nonsmokers, was obtained: fractional CO uptake= 0 58032-0000204 x age+ 0 0004 x weight (kilograms). Weight was the index of body size most strongly correl...

A site for the binding of exogenously added carbon monoxide has been identified at the active site of the Fe-only hydrogenase (CpI) from Clostridium pasteurianum. The binding and inhibition of carbon monoxide have been exploited in biochemical and spectroscopic studies to gain mechanistic insights. In the present study, we have taken advantage of the ability to generate an irreversibly carbon m...

Data from recent experimental and clinical studies have indicated that lower concentrations of inhaled carbon monoxide might have beneficial antiinflammatory effects. Inhaled carbon monoxide has the potential to be a therapeutic agent for chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD). However, population-based epidemiologic studies of environmentally relevant carbon monoxide exposure have gener...

BECAUSE OF VARIATION in hemoglobin concentration in normal bloods with age and sex (1), the per cent carbon monoxide saturation of hemoglobin represents a more accurate toxicity index than the volume per cent of carbon monoxide. In 2 of the most common methods of carbon monoxide determination in blood, the gasometric method of Van Slyke (2, 3, 4) and the spectrophotometric method of Harper (5),...

An analysis of instrumented vehicle data revealed significant differences in operating mode profiles for vehicle operations in Atlanta, Georgia; Baltimore, Maryland; and Spokane, Washington. Differences in such operating mode characteristics as acceleration rates and cruise speed distributions are important in the development of new emissions models because certain vehicle and engine operating ...

PURPOSE Recent data demonstrate that the mortality rate from carbon monoxide poisoning has declined over the past 2 decades. It is not known whether this decrease in mortality is reflective of the total burden of carbon monoxide poisoning. This study sought to examine trends in other potential indicators of the incidence of carbon monoxide poisoning in the United States. BASIC PROCEDURES Publ...