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Mitigating the burden of air pollution on ocular surface disorders through public health interventions

Delta Journal of Ophthalmology
Air pollution has been ranked as one of the leading causes accounting for global disease burden. The objectives of the current article were to ascertain the different consequences of air pollution on ocular health, identify various ocular surface ...
Saurabh R. Shrivastava, Prateek S. Bobhate, Rinkle Phusate   +2 more
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Air pollution from household solid fuel combustion in India: an overview of exposure and health related information to inform health research priorities

Global Health Action, 2011
Environmental and occupational risk factors contribute to nearly 40% of the national burden of disease in India, with air pollution in the indoor and outdoor environment ranking amongst leading risk factors.
Kalpana Balakrishnan, Padmavathi Ramaswamy, Sankar Sambandam, Gurusamy Thangavel, Santu Ghosh, Priscilla Johnson, Krishnendu Mukhopadhyay, Vidhya Venugopal, Vijayalakshmi Thanasekaraan   +8 more
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The health effects of ultrafine particles

Experimental and Molecular Medicine, 2020
Air pollution: Nanoparticles linked to disease Tiny particles found in air pollution enter the body usually through the lungs and disperse to other organs, causing more inflammation and cellular toxicity than larger particles.
Dean E. Schraufnagel
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Association between combined exposure to underground air pollutants and hypertension in coal miners: a cross-sectional study

BMC Public Health
Background Coal miners are chronically exposed to underground air pollutants, with a notably higher hypertension (HTN) incidence than the general population.
Qianwei Chen, Chao Lu, Yongtang Jin, Wanjun Yin, Fengjen Chu, Jia Wang, Yuanjie Zou, Yuanzhen Du, Fenglin Zhu, Yajun Zhang, Ziwen Hui, Min Mu   +11 more
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Peculiarities of sarcopenia in occupational chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in conditions of exposure of industrial aerosols containing nanoparticles

Терапевтический архив
Background. The influence of nanoparticles of industrial aerosols on phenotypes of occupational chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is not studied enough. In this connection the system signs and symptoms of the disease including sarcopenia is of
Lyubov A. Shpagina, Marina A. Zenkova, Anatoly I. Saprykin, Evgeniya B. Logashenko, Ilya S. Shpagin, Olga S. Kotova, Alphiya R. Tsygankova, Elena G. Kondyurina, Vera V. Zelenskaia, Galina V. Kuznetsova, Ekaterina V. Anikina, Natalya V. Kamneva, Valerij A. Sergeev, Tatiana N. Surovenko   +13 more
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Lag time structure of cardiovascular deaths attributed to ambient air pollutants in Ahvaz, Iran, 2008–2015 [PDF]

, 2018
Objectives There are few studies about the association between breathing polluted air and increased risk of cardiovascular diseases and cardiac death in the Middle East.
Gholamreza Goudarzi, Narges Khanjani, Aghababaeian, Hamidreza, Dastoorpoor, Maryam, Khanjani, Narges, Bahrampour, Abbas, Abbas Bahrampour, Goudarzi, Gholamreza, Idani, Esmaeil, Esmaeil Idani, Khanjan, Narges, Hamidreza Aghababaeian, Maryam Dastoorpoor   +12 more
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Climate and occupancy based investigation of air pollutants in office spaces

IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2019
Abstract Indoor air quality (IAQ) has long been a matter of public concern as many people are spending a large portion of their time indoors. The concentration of some pollutant in offices and other work places can often be 2 to 5 times higher than typical outdoor concentrations.
Farzad Hashemi, Ulrike Passe
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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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The influence of environmental factors related to Juvenile Dermatomyositis (JDM), its course and refractoriness to treatment

Advances in Rheumatology
Objective To evaluate the influence of environmental factors and prematurity relating to juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM), its course and refractoriness to treatment.
Clarissa C.M. Valões, Tamima M. Arabi, Alfésio L.F. Braga, Lúcia M.A. Campos, Nádia E. Aikawa, Kátia T. Kozu, Clovis A. Silva, Sylvia C.L. Farhat, Adriana M. Elias   +8 more
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Soil-Air exchange controls on background atmospheric concentrations of organochlorine pesticides [PDF]

, 2011
Soils are the major terrestrial reservoir of persistent organic pollutants, and thus net volatilization from soil, when it happens, may exert a control on the atmospheric occurrence and variability of organic pollutants.
Dachs, J., Jones, Kevin, Barceló, D., Cabrerizo, A.   +3 more
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