Acute respiratory effects of particles: mass or number?

T Osunsanya, G Prescott, A Seaton - Occupational and Environmental …, 2001 - oem.bmj.com
… We here report a study in which we have investigated associations between health effects
in a panel of vulnerable people and both PM 10 and measurement of the number of particles

Potential role of ultrafine particles in associations between airborne particle mass and cardiovascular health

RJ Delfino, C Sioutas, S Malik - Environmental health …, 2005 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
… Exposure of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients to particles: respiratory and
cardiovascular health effects. J Expo Anal Environ Epidemiol 11:490-500 https://pubmed.ncbi.…

Estimation of particle mass concentration in ambient air using a particle counter

A Tittarelli, A Borgini, M Bertoldi, E De Saeger… - Atmospheric …, 2008 - Elsevier
Particle count may have advantage over particle mass concentration for assessing the
health effects … However, health effects have mainly been investigated with mass-measuring …

PM source apportionment and health effects: 2. An investigation of intermethod variability in associations between source-apportioned fine particle mass and daily …

K Ito, WF Christensen, DJ Eatough, RC Henry… - Journal of exposure …, 2006 - nature.com
… One natural progression of the PM health effects research is … PM and health outcomes,
rather than with PM mass overall. … -oriented evaluation of PM health effects, there are several …

Health effects of particles in ambient air

AD Kappos, P Bruckmann, T Eikmann, N Englert… - … environmental health, 2004 - Elsevier
… At equal mass dose, ultra fine particles were more toxic than … about ultra fine particles and
their health effects is not sufficient to … to ultra fine particles and its relevance to human health. …

Fine particles are more strongly associated than coarse particles with acute respiratory health effects in schoolchildren

J Schwartz, LM Neas - Epidemiology, 2000 - journals.lww.com
… This sampler yielded two daily measurements, one of PM 2.5 and one of coarse particle
mass (CM), which were summed daily to produce a PM 10 reading. We also measured sulfate …

A metric for health effects studies of diesel exhaust particles

B Giechaskiel, B Alföldy, Y Drossinos - Journal of Aerosol Science, 2009 - Elsevier
… because condensational growth of particle mass depends on the particle diameter:
nevertheless, it provides a reasonable approximation to the volatile mass concentration of the …

Daily mortality and fine and ultrafine particles in Erfurt, Germany part I: role of particle number and particle mass.

HE Wichmann, C Spix, T Tuch, G Wölke… - … report (Health Effects …, 2000 - europepmc.org
… In addition to standard data for particle mass with diameters < or = 2.5 microm (PM2.5)* or <
… fine particles (represented by particle mass) and ultrafine particles (represented by particle

Spatial correlation of ultrafine particle number and fine particle mass at urban scales: implications for health assessment

PK Saha, S Sengupta, P Adams… - Environmental …, 2020 - ACS Publications
health effects of UFP. Although numerous studies have demonstrated that PM 2.5 mass has
substantial health effects… the chronic health impacts of UFP are different than those of PM 2.5 …

The health effects of ultrafine particles

DE Schraufnagel - Experimental & molecular medicine, 2020 - nature.com
… ≤0.1 µm in diameter), also called ultrafine particles (this term … health effects that, in part,
result from how these particles … their mass, while PM 0.1 are measured by particle number. …