Environmental health perspectives
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Environ. Health Perspect. · Oct 2011
Randomized Controlled TrialImpact of reduced maternal exposures to wood smoke from an introduced chimney stove on newborn birth weight in rural Guatemala.
A growing body of evidence indicates a relationship between household indoor air pollution from cooking fires and adverse neonatal outcomes, such as low birth weight (LBW), in resource-poor countries. ⋯ A chimney stove reduced wood smoke exposures and was associated with reduced LBW occurrence. Although not statistically significant, the estimated effect was consistent with previous studies.
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Environ. Health Perspect. · Apr 2011
Long-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution and the risk of coronary heart disease hospitalization and mortality.
Epidemiologic studies have demonstrated that exposure to road traffic is associated with adverse cardiovascular outcomes. ⋯ Long-term exposure to traffic-related fine particulate air pollution, indicated by black carbon, may partly explain the observed associations between exposure to road traffic and adverse cardiovascular outcomes.
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Environ. Health Perspect. · Apr 2011
Fine particulate matter constituents associated with cardiovascular hospitalizations and mortality in New York City.
Recent time-series studies have indicated that both cardiovascular disease (CVD)mortality and hospitalizations are associated with particulate matter (PM). However, seasonal patterns of PM associations with these outcomes are not consistent, and PM components responsible for these associations have not been determined. We investigated this issue in New York City (NYC), where PM originates from regional and local combustion sources. ⋯ Local combustion sources, including traffic and residual oil burning, may play a year-round role in the associations between air pollution and CVD outcomes, but transported aerosols may explain the seasonal variation in associations shown by PM(2.5) mass.