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Maternal exposure to benzene and toluene and preterm birth. A longitudinal study

Säo Paulo med. j; 137 (6), 2019
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Exposure to air pollutants has several effects on human health, including during pregnancy. OBJECTIVE: To identify whether exposure to benzene and toluene among pregnant women contributes to preterm delivery. DESIGN AND SETTING: Longitudinal study using data on newborns from mo...

Impacto da queima da cana-de-açúcar sobre internações hospitalares por doenças respiratórias

Resumo O objetivo deste artigo é avaliar o impacto das emissões da queima da cana-de-açúcar sobre o número de internações hospitalares por doenças respiratórias em uma região canavieira. Registros de internações hospitalares por doenças respiratórias foram adquiridas a partir da base de dad...

Wildfires as a Public Health Problem: a Setting for Nursing in Disasters

Invest. educ. enferm; 37 (3), 2019
Climate change and global warming are phenomena that are progressively affecting the planet. Temperature changes bring about various threats in distinct sectors and environments of human society, among them, threats to health secondary to extreme temperatures and natural disasters. Thus, it is constitute...

Poluição do ar e impactos na saúde na Região Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte - Minas Gerais, Brasil

Resumo Examinamos o impacto da poluição atmosférica nas internações por doenças respiratórias totais (DRT), em crianças menores de cinco anos (DRC) e por doenças cardiovasculares em maiores de 39 anos (DCV) nos municípios de Belo Horizonte (BH), Betim e Contagem, da Região Metropolitana de Bel...

Release of formaldehyde during the biofiltration of methanol vapors in a peat biofilter inoculated with Pichia pastoris GS115

Background: Methanol can be effectively removed from air by biofiltration. However, formaldehyde is one of the first metabolic intermediates in the consumption of methanol in methylotrophic microorganisms, and it can be released out of the cell constituting a secondary emission. Results: The total remova...

Intervención ambiental en las enfermedades respiratorias
Environmental intervention in respiratory disease

Medicina (B.Aires); 79 (2), 2019
En los últimos años hubo un aumento significativo en la prevalencia de las enfermedades alérgicas pese a los avances en la comprensión de la patogénesis, la divulgación de guías para su control y tratamiento y la aparición de nuevos fármacos. La raz ón para este aumento no está totalmente esta...

Impacto del Material Particulado aéreo (MP 2, 5 ) sobre las hospitalizaciones por enfermedades respiratorias en niños: estudio caso-control alterno

Rev. chil. pediatr; 90 (2), 2019
INTRODUCCIÓN: Santiago de Chile con 7 millones de habitantes alcanza elevados niveles de contaminación atmosférica en invierno, el material particulado habitualmente excede los estándares de la OMS. OBJETIVO: Evaluar la influencia de la contaminación atmosférica por material particulado en las h...

Different response to exposure to air pollutants in girls and boys

ABSTRACT Objective: Identify the association between exposure to fine particulate matter and hospitalizations due to respiratory diseases in children up to ten years of age in the city of Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, stratifying the analysis by sex and calculating excess costs. Methods: Ecological study of ...

Fuzzy logic and hospital admission due to respiratory diseases using estimated values by mathematical model

Abstract Hospitalizations due to respiratory diseases generate financial costs for the Health System in addition to social costs. Objective of this study was to develop and validate a fuzzy linguistic model for prediction of hospitalization due to respiratory diseases. We constructed a fuzzy model for pr...