The prevalence of asthma and allergic diseases has increased dramatically during the past few decades not only in industrialized countries. Urban air pollution from motor vehicles has been indicated as one of the major risk factors responsible for this increase.Although genetic factors are important in the development of asthma and allergic diseases, the rising trend can be explained only in ch...

BACKGROUND Kolkata is one of the polluted metropolitan cities in India where health effects of air pollution are raising serious concern. OBJECTIVES Purpose of the present study was to analyze association between levels of air pollutants and pulmonary function of adult males living in two different air pollutant zones of Kolkata. METHODS Air pollution data of two ambient air quality monitor...

This study was undertaken at four different sites (north polluted, south polluted, south healthy and north healthy) in Tehran, in order to examine whether there was a relationship between publicly available air quality data and the public’s perception of air quality and to suggest some guidelines for reducing air pollution. A total of 200 people were accidentally filled out the research questio...

The air we breathe contains emissions from many different sources: industry, motor vehicles, heating and commercial sources, household fuels as well as tobacco smoke. The effects of air pollution on health have been intensively studied in recent years. The results of these studies showed that air pollution harms human health and particularly is harmful for those who are already vulnerable becau...

This study compares the values of the critical air pollution indicators (including-sulphur dioxide, smoke, total deposited matter, gaseous fluorides, fluorides, and manganese in suspended particulates and deposited matter) measured in Sibenik for years 1989/90 when the industry was working with full capacity, and for years 1994/95 and 1995/96 when most plants were shut down due to Serbian aggre...

Air pollution is a complex mixture of gases (e.g., ozone), particulate matter, and organic compounds present in outdoor and indoor air. Dogs exposed to severe air pollution exhibit chronic inflammation and acceleration of Alzheimer's-like pathology, suggesting that the brain is adversely affected by pollutants. We investigated whether residency in cities with high levels of air pollution is ass...

It is noteworthy that the air pollution in big cities creates headlines, but in many rural areas of the developing countries, the indoor air pollution is an even more serious health problem. The provision of air that is safe to breathe is just as important as safe water or food. Yet many millions of people, predominantly women, in the poor and developing countries, are obliged to breathe air th...

Increased mortality has been observed in association with elevated concentrations of air pollutants in European cities and in the United States. We reassessed the effects of particulate matter in Central Europe. Mortality and air pollution data were obtained for a highly polluted region of the Czech Republic and a rural region in Germany. Poisson regression analyses were conducted considering t...

Exposure to ambient air pollution is associated with adverse cardiovascular outcomes. These are manifested through several, likely overlapping, pathways including at the functional level, endothelial dysfunction, atherosclerosis, pro-coagulation and alterations in autonomic nervous system balance and blood pressure. At numerous points within each of these pathways, there is potential for cellul...