Researchers with the Children’s Health Study led by the University of Southern California have monitored levels of major air pollutants in a dozen southern California communities since 1993, while tracking the respiratory health of more than 3,000 school age children.
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As part of an assessment prepared for the World Health Organization, Nino Künzli and coauthors estimated health risk attributable to PM10 pollution in three European countries, Austria, France, and Switzerland.
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A rather dramatic improvement in air quality in East Germany occurred following the German reunification in 1990.
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This study followed a group of 133 children with mild to moderate asthma, ages 5-13, in the Seattle, Washington area.
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“Asthma is the most common chronic illness in children and the cause of most school absences,” state Norris et al., in their study of children’s emergency department visits for asthma.
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This ten-year study of Medicare patients in Chicago was designed to identify subgroups that are especially susceptible to particulate pollutions.
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Effects of particles are showing up not only in laboratory animals, but also in a chamber study with human subjects performed by EPA research physician Dr. Andrew Ghio and colleagues.
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This toxicology study by Harvard pathologist Dr. John Godleski is one of the first to test whether exposure to particulate matter can change heart function in laboratory animals.
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A pilot study was designed to test the hypothesis that heart patients with a history of serious arrhythmia requiring implanted cardiac defibrillators experience potentially life-threatening arrhythmias following short term increases in air pollution.
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This study by Dr. Morton Lippmann and colleagues from the New York University School of Medicine attempted to identify components of particulate matter and other air pollution mixtures that were associated with excess daily deaths and hospital admissions of the elderly in the Detroit metropolitan area.
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