Ambient air pollution and pregnancy outcomes: a comprehensive review and identification of environmental public health challenges

P Klepac, I Locatelli, S Korošec, N Künzli… - Environmental research, 2018 - Elsevier
There is a growing number of studies on the association between ambient air pollution and
adverse pregnancy outcomes, but their results have been inconsistent. Consequently, a …

Health effects of fine particulate air pollution: lines that connect

CA Pope III, DW Dockery - Journal of the air & waste management …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Air quality in the megacity of São Paulo: Evolution over the last 30 years and future perspectives

M de Fatima Andrade, P Kumar, ED de Freitas… - Atmospheric …, 2017 - Elsevier
We present a comprehensive review of published results from the last 30 years regarding
the sources and atmospheric characteristics of particles and ozone in the Metropolitan Area …

Air pollution and infant health: what can we learn from California's recent experience?

J Currie, M Neidell - The quarterly journal of economics, 2005 - academic.oup.com
We examine the impact of air pollution on infant death in California over the 1990s. Our work
offers several innovations: first, most previous studies examine populations subject to far …

Effect of early life exposure to air pollution on development of childhood asthma

NA Clark, PA Demers, CJ Karr… - Environmental …, 2010 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background There is increasing recognition of the importance of early environmental
exposures in the development of childhood asthma. Outdoor air pollution is a recognized …

The transport sector as a source of air pollution

RN Colvile, EJ Hutchinson, JS Mindell… - Atmospheric …, 2001 - Elsevier
Transport first became a significant source of air pollution after the problems of sooty smog
from coal combustion had largely been solved in western European and North American …

Indoor air pollution in developing countries and acute lower respiratory infections in children

KR Smith, JM Samet, I Romieu, N Bruce - Thorax, 2000 - thorax.bmj.com
BACKGROUND A critical review was conducted of the quantitative literature linking indoor
air pollution from household use of biomass fuels with acute respiratory infections in young …

Effects of environment pollution on the ocular surface

SJ Jung, JS Mehta, L Tong - The ocular surface, 2018 - Elsevier
The twenty-first century is fraught with dangers like climate change and pollution, which
impacts human health and mortality. As levels of pollution increase, respiratory illnesses and …

Air pollution combustion emissions: characterization of causative agents and mechanisms associated with cancer, reproductive, and cardiovascular effects

J Lewtas - Mutation Research/Reviews in Mutation Research, 2007 - Elsevier
Combustion emissions account for over half of the fine particle (PM2. 5) air pollution and
most of the primary particulate organic matter. Human exposure to combustion emissions …

Air pollution and children's health

J Schwartz - Pediatrics, 2004 - publications.aap.org
Children's exposure to air pollution is a special concern because their immune system and
lungs are not fully developed when exposure begins, raising the possibility of different …