Researchers at UCLA have previously reported that increases in ambient air pollution in the Los Angeles basin increase the risk of low birth weight babies and premature births. This follow-up study examined mothers’ differential exposure to air pollutants resulting from living near roadways with heavy traffic.

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Yale University researchers studied a group of 271 asthmatic children under age 12, living in Connecticut and Springfield, Massachusetts involved in a prospective study of asthma severity.
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High levels of air pollution may increase the risk of dying from SARS — severe acute respiratory syndrome.
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This study investigated mortality in relation to neighborhood levels of income and air pollution in a cohort of 5,000 people who had been referred for pulmonary function testing in the urban area of Hamilton-Burlington in southern Ontario.
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Following German reunification in 1990, there was a tremendous decline in combustion-derived emissions of sulfur dioxide and total suspended particulate (TSP) in Eastern Germany.
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Researchers obtained archived lung tissue from autopsies of 16 victims of the London smog disaster over 50 years ago.
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Researchers evaluated a series of autopsy lungs from Mexico City, a high-PM locale, and compared them by formal grading analysis to lungs from Vancouver, a region of generally low air pollution.
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In 1988, Congress directed the U.S. EPA to substantially increase its level of funding on PM health effects research.
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The APHEA-2 project was a major study of the health effects of air pollution in 30 cities across Europe and in adjacent countries. That and many other studies have reported that short-term changes in PM10 lead to short-term fluctuations in sickness and death. The APHEA-2 project was a major study of the health effects of air pollution in 30 cities across Europe and in adjacent countries. That and many other studies have reported that short-term changes in PM10 lead to short-term fluctuations in sickness and death. This study uses a statistical model– known as the distributed lag model — to explore whether those deaths are advanced by just a few days or a few weeks, or more.
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39 senior adults with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) were followed by their physicians in Paris, France, during a 14-month period.
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