Meteorological conditions, climate change, new emerging factors, and asthma and related allergic disorders. A statement of the World Allergy Organization

G D'Amato, ST Holgate, R Pawankar… - World allergy …, 2015 - Springer
The prevalence of allergic airway diseases such as asthma and rhinitis has increased
dramatically to epidemic proportions worldwide. Besides air pollution from industry derived …

Clearing the air: a review of the effects of particulate matter air pollution on human health

JO Anderson, JG Thundiyil, A Stolbach - Journal of medical toxicology, 2012 - Springer
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 …

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 …

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 …

Asthma in exercising children exposed to ozone: a cohort study

R McConnell, K Berhane, F Gilliland, SJ London… - The Lancet, 2002 - thelancet.com
Background Little is known about the effect of exposure to air pollution during exercise or
time spent outdoors on the development of asthma. We investigated the relation between …

Motor vehicle air pollution and asthma in children: a meta-analysis

J Gasana, D Dillikar, A Mendy, E Forno… - Environmental research, 2012 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Asthma affects more than 17 million people in the United States; 1/3 of
these are children. Children are particularly vulnerable to airborne pollution because of their …

Sensors and systems for wearable environmental monitoring toward IoT-enabled applications: A review

MA Al Mamun, MR Yuce - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Environmental pollution is a major issue for public health and safety. Measurement of fine-
grain spatiotemporal distribution of pollution for a micro-environment is necessary to explore …

Health effects of particles in ambient air

AD Kappos, P Bruckmann, T Eikmann, N Englert… - International journal of …, 2004 - Elsevier
A summary of a critical review by a working group of the German commission on Air
Pollution Prevention of VDI and DIN of the actual data on exposure and health effects …

Children's response to air pollutants

TF Bateson, J Schwartz - Journal of toxicology and environmental …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
It is important to focus on children with respect to air pollution because (1) their lungs are not
completely developed,(2) they can have greater exposures than adults, and (3) those …

Estimating the health effects of exposure to multi-pollutant mixture

C Billionnet, D Sherrill, I Annesi-Maesano - Annals of epidemiology, 2012 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: Air pollution constitutes a major public health concern because of its ubiquity
and of its potential health impact. Because individuals are exposed to many air pollutants at …