There is growing evidence that traffic-related air pollution reduces birth weight. Improving exposure assessment is a key issue to advance in this research area.
For reasons of hygiene, drinking water, or any other water that people come into direct or indirect
contact with, often has to be treated with compounds that destroy any micro-organisms contained
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Whether there is a causal relation between long-term exposure to traffic and asthma development is so far not clear. This may be explained by inaccurate exposure assessment.
Little is known about the respiratory effects of short-term exposures to petroleum refinery emissions in young children. This study is an extension of an ecologic study that found an increased rate...
This cuts through a number of myths that had developed around traditional, as opposed to modern paint. An article by Patrick Baty on the (then) recent restrictions on the use of lead paint brought ...
Epidemiologic studies have shown associations between asthma outcomes and
outdoor air pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter mass < 2.5 μm in diameter
(PM2.5). Independent effec...
Evidence suggests that air pollution exposure adversely affects pregnancy outcomes.
Few studies have examined individual-level intraurban exposure contrasts.
Heart rate variability (HRV), a measure of cardiac autonomic tone, has been
associated with cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Short-term studies have shown that subjects
exposed to higher tra...
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