Advanced Topics in Environmental Health and Air Pollution Case Studies

Edited by Anca Maria Moldoveanu

Abstract: The book describes the effects of air pollutants, from the indoor and outdoor spaces, on the human physiology. Air pollutants can influence inflammation biomarkers, can influence the pathogenesis of chronic cough, can influence reactive oxygen species (ROS) and can induce autonomic nervous system interactions that modulate cardiac oxidative stress and cardiac electrophysiological changes, can participate in the onset and exacerbation of upper respiratory and cardio-vascular diseases, can lead to the exacerbation of asthma and allergic diseases. The book also presents how the urban environment can influence and modify the impact of various pollutants on human health.

JEL-codes: Q51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-953-307-525-9
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Acute Effects of Fine Particulate Air Pollution on Cardiac Electrophysiology: Duanping Liao, Michele Shaffer and Haibo Zhou
Adverse Effect of Air Pollution on Odor Perception: Robyn Hudson, Marco Guarneros, Rene Drucker-Colin and Jose Esquivelzeta
Aggravation of Allergic Rhinitis by Air Pollution: Demonstration by an Animal Model of Pollenosis: Takeshi Nabe and Nobuaki Mizutani
Air Pollutants and Its Effects on Human Healthy: The Case of the City of Trabzon: Yelda Aydin Turk and Mustafa Kavraz
Air Pollution and Its Impacts - The City of Rijeka Case Study: Ana Alebic-Juretic
Air Pollution and Outpatient Treatment and Hospital Admissions for Respiratory Diseases in Children in Southeast Region of Brazil: Hermano Albuquerque De Castro, Sandra de Souza Hacon, Karen Dos Santos Goncalves and Washington Leite Junger
Air Pollution and Urban Morphology: A Complex Relation or How to Optimize the Pedestrian Movement in Town: Maignant Gilles and Jerome Dutozia
Air Pollution in Moscow Megacity: Gennady Gorchakov, Eugenia Semoutnikova, Alexey Karpov and Elena Lezina
Air Pollution with Asbestos in Several Cities in Romania: Anca Maria Moldoveanu
Air Pollution, Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS), and Autonomic Nervous System Interactions Modulate Cardiac Oxidative Stress and Electrophysiological Changes: Elisa Ghelfi
Application of Neural Net Model to Estimate the Cardiovascular and Respiratory Diseases by Air Pollution Data in Urban Area: Armando Pelliccioni and Rossana Cotroneo
Application of the Ultramicro Forward-Mutation Assay to the Monitoring of Indoor and Outdoor Air Mutagenicity-Examples of Chengdu City and Tokyo: Yukihiko Takagi, Daisuke Nakajima, Sun Chengjun and Sumio Goto
Carbon Monoxide Urban Air Pollution: Cardiac Effects: Cyril Reboul, G. Meyer, S. Tanguy and Philippe Obert
Comparison of Indoor and Outdoor Bioaerosols in Poultry Farming: Elzbieta Lonc and Kinga Plewa
Distribution of Indoor Concentrations and Emission Sources of Formaldehyde in Japanese Residences: Naohide Shinohara, Atsushi Mizukoshi, Toshiyuki Kataoka, Koichi Takamine, Masashi Gamo and Yukio Yanagisawa
Do Socio-Demographic Characteristics Modify the Association Between Air Pollution and Mortality & Morbidity?: Sabit Cakmak, Sara Martin, Claudia Vidal, Timur Gultekin, Vladislav Brion and Maria-Angelica Rubio
Effect of Short-Term Exposure to Near Highway Pollutants in Motor Vehicle Exhaust on Inflammation Sensitive Biomarkers: Ori Rogowski, Eran Leshem-Rubinow, Itzhak Shapira and Arie Steinvil
Impact of Urban Air Pollution on Acute Upper Respiratory Tract Infections: Marcos Abdo Arbex, Silvia Leticia Santiago, Elisangela Providello Moyses, Luiz Alberto Pereira, Paulo Hilario Saldiva and Alfesio Luis Ferreira Braga
Indoor Air Quality in Primary Schools: Maria do Carmo Freitas, Filomena Mouro, Rita Sousa, Maria Trancoso, Casimiro Pio, Celia Alves, Priscilla Pegas, Susana Marta Almeida, Marina Almeida-Silva, Maria Martinho, Nuno Canha and Teresa Contreiras
Short-Term Exposure to Outdoor Pollutants and Loss of Pulmonary Function in the Elderly: Yun-Chul Hong and Jin Hee Kim
The Effects of Air Pollution on Cellular Material Release, Allergenicity and Allergens Proteins of Three Ornamental Plants: Farkhondeh Rezanejad and Ahmad Majd
The Impact of Asthma and Allergic Diseases on Schoolchildren: Are They at Increased Risk of Absenteeism and Poor School Performance?: Abdulbari Bener
The Occurrence of Bioaerosols in The Food Preparation Areas of HIV/AIDS Hospices in Central South Africa: Karabo Shale, Jane Nkhebenyane, Pierre Venter and Ryk Lues
Tobacco Smoke Induced Cough: Mechanisms Driving Acute and Chronic Cough Pathology: Megan Grace, Mark Birrell, Eric Dubuis and Maria Belvisi
What is the Minimum Risk that can be Estimated from an Epidemiology Study?: Mark Nicolich and John Gamble

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DOI: 10.5772/997

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