Potential mechanisms of adverse pulmonary and cardiovascular effects of particulate air pollution (PM10)

K Donaldson, W MacNee - … Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, 2001 - Elsevier
PM10 is the international convention for measuring environmental particulate air pollution.
Increases in PM10 have been linked to exacerbations of airways disease and deaths from …

Particulate air pollution and the blood

A Seaton, A Soutar, V Crawford, R Elton, S McNerlan… - Thorax, 1999 - thorax.bmj.com
… Our original hypothesis relating particulate air pollution to cardiovascular illness and
death invoked pulmonary inflammation as a cause of increases in fibrinogen concentrations …

Free radical activity and pro-inflammatory effects of particulate air pollution (PM10) in vivo and in vitro.

XY Li, PS Gilmour, K Donaldson, W MacNee - Thorax, 1996 - thorax.bmj.com
… of urban air.' Numerous epidemiological studies have shown that particulate air pollution is
… locations' suggests that the exact composition of the particulate air pollution is not critical. …

Health and respirable particulate (PM10) air pollution: a causal or statistical association?

JF Gamble, RJ Lewis - Environmental health perspectives, 1996 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Numerous studies have reported weak but statistically significant acute health effects of
particulate air pollution. The associations are observed at levels below the current US standard …

Particulate air pollution and panel studies in children: a systematic review

DJ Ward, JG Ayres - Occupational and environmental medicine, 2004 - oem.bmj.com
… This paper aims to review the results of panel studies that have considered the effects of
particulate air pollution on the respiratory health of children. We have used systematic methods …

The Effect of Repeated Exposure to Particulate Air Pollution (PM10) on the Bone Marrow

H Mukae, R Vincent, K Quinlan, D English… - American Journal of …, 2001 - atsjournals.org
Studies have shown that exposure to ambient particulate matter is related to an increased
cardiopulmonary morbidity and mortality. The present study was designed to measure the …

In vivo and in vitro proinflammatory effects of particulate air pollution (PM10).

XY Li, PS Gilmour, K Donaldson… - Environmental Health …, 1997 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
… between fine particulate air pollution, especially particles less than 10 mm in diameter (PM10), …
We tested our hypothesis that PM10 induces oxidant stress, causing inflammation and …

Acute effects of particulate air pollution on respiratory admissions: results from APHEA 2 project

RW Atkinson, H Ross Anderson, J Sunyer… - American journal of …, 2001 - atsjournals.org
… outdoor particle pollution. It is not possible to determine from this study which, if any, of these
explanations are true. In conclusion, this study has confirmed that particle air pollution was …

Cytokines Involved in the Systemic Inflammatory Response Induced by Exposure to Particulate Matter Air Pollutants (PM10)

SF van EEDEN, WC Tan, T Suwa, H Mukae… - American journal of …, 2001 - atsjournals.org
air pollution and decreased in the period after the pollutionparticle exposure are important
in the pathogenesis of the cardiopulmonary disease associated with particulate air pollution

The relationship between selected causes of postneonatal infant mortality and particulate air pollution in the United States.

TJ Woodruff, J Grillo… - Environmental health …, 1997 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
… In this study, the strength ofassociation between PM10 exposure and mortality decreased
after control for demographic factors and maternal smoking during pregnancy. The logistic …