PM Health Effects — Annotated Bibliography, March 2001
More than 800 new scientific studies related to the effect of airborne particulates on human health have been published since 1996, when EPA last reviewed the standards for particulate matter.
The new studies validate the earlier research and address the most important arguments raised by industry critics.
Taken together, the studies confirm the relationship between particulate air pollution, illness, hospitalization, and premature death.
The major themes of the new research are that the:
• Major long-term studies have been fully validated.
• New short-term studies from across the U.S. and around the world confirm the mortality effects.
• New analyses show that lives may be shortened by months or years, rather than days.
• Recent studies of laboratory animals and humans have identified cardiac responses to particles, thus elucidating possible biologic
mechanisms for mortality.
• New studies demonstrate that infants and children, particularly asthmatic children, are especially sensitive to the effects of fine
particle pollution.
The hundreds of scientific studies published in the last several years confirm that current levels of particulate air pollution are harmful to human health.
The attached annotated bibliography presents the findings of some of the most significant new research studies published from 1997 to 2001.
Attachments
- Summaries Studies on PM and Health, March 2001
- pmhealth9701.pdf
Annotated Bibliography of Key Studies 1997-2001
