This study used a case-crossover approach to examine the relationship between various air pollutants and infant mortality in a large city in Taiwan.  (more…)

A very large case-crossover study of Medicare recipients in of 36 U.S. cities evaluated the effect of ozone and PM10 on respiratory hospital admissions over a 13-year period. (more…)

This study evaluated the short-term effects of urban air pollution on cardiac hospital readmissions in survivors of heart attacks in five European cities. (more…)

This study examined the associations of ozone with childhood asthma hospitalizations as stratified by socioeconomic status in Seoul, Korea in 2002.  (more…)

Significant lung development occurs after birth.  This study in infant rhesus monkeys tested whether repeated cycles of injury and repair caused by ozone exposure lead to chronic airway disease and decreased lung function by altering normal lung maturation.  (more…)

Researchers compared chest x-rays from children living in heavily polluted southwest Mexico City with children living in a cleaner air region in Tlaxcala, Mexico.  (more…)

New data from a four-year study of 11.5 Medicare participants show that short-term exposure to fine particle air pollution significantly increases the risk for cardiovascular and respiratory disease among people over 65 years of age.
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Test results with laboratory mice show a direct cause-and-effect link between exposure to fine particle air pollution and development of atherosclerosis, commonly known as hardening of the arteries.
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This study investigated the effects of air pollutants on birth weight among term infants who were born in California during 1975-1987 and who participated in the Children’s Health Study.
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French researchers have reported that short-term ozone exposure within a period of 1 to 2 days is related to acute coronary events in middle-aged adults without heart disease, and that nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide are not.
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