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Interaction between Air Pollutants and Pollen Grains: Effects on Public and Occupational Health

Atmosphere, 2023
There has been an insurgence of allergic respiratory diseases such as asthma and rhinitis in industrialized countries in the last few decades as a result of the interaction between air pollutants and pollen, which has become a global and dramatic health ...
Pasquale Capone, Andrea Lancia, Maria Concetta D’Ovidio   +2 more
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Firefighters' occupational exposure to air pollution: impact on COPD and asthma-study protocol. [PDF]

BMJ Open Respir Res
IntroductionFirefighting continues to be among the most hazardous yet least studied occupations in terms of the impact of exposure to occupational disease. In particular, firefighters are at increased risk of adverse health effects due to exposure to significant levels of potentially harmful substances, namely carbon monoxide, particulate matter and ...
Barbosa JV, Branco PTBS, Alvim-Ferraz MCM, Martins FG, Sousa SIV.   +4 more
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A Narrative Review of Occupational Air Pollution and Respiratory Health in Farmworkers

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021
The agricultural crop sector in the United States depends on migrant, seasonal, and immigrant farmworkers. As an ethnic minority group in the U.S. with little access to health care and a high level of poverty, farmworkers face a combination of adverse living and workplace conditions, such as exposure to high levels of air pollution, that can place them
Tara Sabo-Attwood, Eric N. Coker, Andres Manrique, Kayan Clarke   +3 more
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Impact of cotton dust, endotoxin exposure, and other occupational health risk due to indoor pollutants on textile industry workers in low and middle-income countries

Journal of Air Pollution and Health
The textile industry consists of several units that engage different processes namely ginning, spinning, weaving, dyeing, printing, and several other processes which required for converting raw cotton fiber into finished fabrics. Exposure to cotton dust,
Shankar Subramaniam, Naveenkumar Raju, Abbas Ganesan, Nithyaprakash Rajavel, Maheswari Chenniappan, Albert Alexander Stonier, Chander Prakash, Alokesh Pramanik, Animesh Kumar Basak   +8 more
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Broad Exposure Screening of Air Pollutants in the Occupational Environment of Swedish Soldiers Deployed in Afghanistan [PDF]

Military Medicine, 2012
The main objective of this study was to perform an initial characterization of Swedish soldiers' exposure to air pollutants in Afghanistan and screen for potential health hazards. Stationary monitoring was performed in two military camps, International Security Assistance Force Headquarters in Kabul and Camp Northern Lights in Mazar-e Sharif, at both ...
Roger Magnusson, Lars Hägglund, Håkan Wingfors   +2 more
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Occupational Exposure to Air Pollutants and Higher Risk of COPD in Construction Workers: A Meta-Analysis Study.

Indian J Occup Environ Med
Introduction: Construction sites generate high levels of air pollution, contributing to more than 4% of particulate matter in the atmosphere. Literature indicates that on-site pollution is an important factor that contributes to lung impairments in ...
Narayanasamy N, Josyula L.
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Occupational exposure to air pollutants, inflammation and ischemic heart disease

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2004
Print ISSN: 0355-3140 Electronic ISSN: 1795-990X Copyright (c) Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health Editorial Scand J Work Environ Health 2004;30(6):421-423 doi:10.5271/sjweh.830 Occupational exposure to air pollutants, inflammation and ...
B. Sjögren
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From air to mind: unraveling the impact of indoor pollutants on psychiatric disorders

Frontiers in Psychiatry
Epidemiological evidence from the past 20 years indicates that environmental chemicals brought into the air by the vaporization of volatile organic compounds and other anthropogenic pollutants might be involved, at least in part, in the development or ...
German Torres, Ryia T. Subbaiah, Riya A. Sood, Joerg R. Leheste   +3 more
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The Impact of Blood Lead and Its Interaction with Occupational Factors and Air Pollution on Hypertension Prevalence. [PDF]

Toxics
Large-scale epidemiological studies on the association of blood lead levels with blood pressure and hypertension prevalence are still limited, particularly among lead-exposed workers. The evidence is even more scarce on the interaction of blood lead levels with occupational variables and ambient air pollution levels.
Gong Y, Wang Y, Nong Q, Hu P, Li Z, Huang X, Zhong M, Li X, Wu S, Zeng F, Zhao N, Qin Y, Liu S, Hong J, Hu L, Zhang W, Huang Y.   +16 more
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A comparative study on the effectiveness of pollutants control measures adopted in the steel industry to reduce workplace and environmental exposure: a case study

Scientific Reports
Our understanding of the environmental and occupational health implications of pollutants emitted in steel production is still lacking, despite the considerable amount of research devoted to this topic.
Daniel Onut Badea, Alina Trifu, Doru Costin Darabont   +2 more
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