Nine out of 10 people breathe air that does not meet World Health Organization pollution
limits. Air pollutants include gasses and particulate matter and collectively are responsible …

Air pollution is now fully acknowledged to be a public health problem and a social issue.
Particulate matter (PM) concentration has been linked with several clinical manifestations of …

Researchers have been studying the respiratory health effects of ambient air pollution for
more than 70 years. While air pollution as a whole can include gaseous, solid, and liquid …

Numerous investigations studying multiple populations across a variety of environmental
settings have demonstrated a strong association between ambient air particulate matter and …

Air pollution has been considered a hazard to human health. In the past decades, many
studies highlighted the role of ambient airborne particulate matter (PM) as an important …

It is becoming increasingly clear that inhalation exposure to particulate matter (PM) can lead
to or exacerbate various diseases, which are not limited to the lung but extend to the …

Abstract The World Health Organization estimates that particulate matter (PM) air pollution
contributes to approximately 800,000 premature deaths each year, ranking it the 13th …

Efforts to understand and mitigate the health effects of particulate matter (PM) air pollution
have a rich and interesting history. This review focuses on six substantial lines of research …

In the last 10 years there has been an abundance of new epidemiological studies on health
effects of particulate air pollution. The overall evidence suggests that fine particulate …

The toxic effects of air pollution are widely documented. In recent years, however, there has
been an increasing interest in the study of the health effects of particulate matter (PM), a …