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Association of Indoor and Outdoor Air Pollution with Hand-Grip Strength among Adults in Six Low- and Middle-Income Countries.

The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences, 2019
Background Air pollution has been associated with various health outcomes. Its effect on hand-grip strength, a measurement of the construct of muscle strength and health status, remains largely unknown.
Hualiang Lin, Yanfei Guo, Zengliang Ruan, P. Kowal, Q. Di, Yang Zheng, Jianpeng Xiao, E. Hoogendijk, E. Dent, M. Vaughn, Steven W. Howard, Zheng Cao, Wenjun Ma, Z. Qian, Fan Wu   +14 more
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Quantifying the dynamic characteristics of indoor air pollution using real-time sensors: Current status and future implication

Environment International, 2023
People generally spend most of their time indoors, making indoor air quality be of great significance to human health. Large spatiotemporal heterogeneity of indoor air pollution can be hardly captured by conventional filter-based monitoring but real-time
Jinze Wang, Wei Du, Yali Lei, Yuanchen Chen, Zhenglu Wang, Kang Mao, Shu Tao, Bo Pan   +7 more
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Effects of indoor air pollution on respiratory symptoms of non-smoking women in Niš, Serbia

Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine, 2011
Rationale The aim of this study was to determine the effects of indoor air pollution exposure on respiratory symptoms and illnesses in non-smoking women in Niš, Serbia.
Stanković Aleksandra, Nikolić Maja, Arandjelović Mirjana   +2 more
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Association of childhood pulmonary tuberculosis with exposure to indoor air pollution: a case control study

BMC Public Health, 2019
BackgroundCrude measures of exposure to indicate indoor air pollution have been associated with the increased risk for acquiring tuberculosis. Our study aimed to determine an association between childhood pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) and exposure to ...
N. Jafta, P. Jeena, L. Barregard, R. Naidoo   +3 more
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Monitor, inform, understand, innovate: the role of Airparif, a non-profit organization accredited by France’s Ministry of the Environment to monitor air quality

Field Actions Science Reports, 2020
In France, ambient air quality monitoring is conducted by independent non-profit bodies accredited by government authorities. Airparif’s main role is to track and analyze atmospheric phenomena (both over the long term and for episodic pollution events ...
Karine Léger
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Household energy, indoor air pollution and child respiratory health in South Africa

Journal of Energy in Southern Africa, 2017
Indoor air pollution due to the indoor burning of polluting fuels has been associated with Acute Lower Respiratory Infections (ALRI) amongst children less than five years old.
Brendon Barnes, Angela Mathee, Elizabeth Thomas, Nigel Bruce   +3 more
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Indoor air pollution prevention practices and associated factors among household mothers in Olenchiti town, Oromia, Ethiopia.

PLoS ONE
IntroductionMost households in low- and middle-income countries still cook using solid fuels in poorly ventilated dwellings. Indoor air pollution causes various health problems, like pneumonia, lung cancer, stillbirth, low birth weight, impaired ...
Worku Dugassa Girsha, Alem Deksisa Abebe, Ephrem Mannekulih Habtewold, Meyrema Abdo Komicha   +3 more
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Reducing CO2 level in the indoor urban built environment: Analysing indoor plants under different light levels

Cleaner Engineering and Technology, 2023
Recent studies have highlighted that people spend most of their time indoors, making indoor air quality a critical concern. Indoor air pollution can have detrimental effects on human health, and the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in indoor ...
Nilanka Harshani Weerasinghe, Pasindu Kavishna Silva, Rohantha Rukshan Jayasinghe, Wasudha Prabodhani Abeyrathna, Gayanthi Krishani Perera John, Rangika Umesh Halwatura   +5 more
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Geographic and socio-economic variation in markers of indoor air pollution in Nepal: evidence from nationally-representative data

BMC Public Health, 2019
BackgroundIn low-income countries such as Nepal, indoor air pollution (IAP), generated by the indoor burning of biomass fuels, is the top-fourth risk factor driving overall morbidity and mortality.
S. Ghimire, S. Mishra, Abhishek Sharma, Adugna Siweya, Nipun Shrestha, B. Adhikari   +5 more
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Maternal Exposure to Indoor Air Pollution and Birth Outcomes

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019
There is a growing body of research on the association between ambient air pollution and adverse birth outcomes. However, people in high income countries spend most of their time indoors. Pregnant women spend much of that time at home.
P. Franklin, Mark Tan, Naomi R. Hemy, G. Hall   +3 more
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