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A comparative assessment of air pollutants of smog in wagah border and other sites in Lahore, Pakistan

Braz. j. biol; 84 (), 2024
Abstract Smog has become the fifth season of Pakistan especially in Lahore city. Increased level of air pollutants (primary and secondary) are thought to be responsible for the formation of smog in Lahore. Therefore, the current study was carried out for the evaluation of air pollutants (primary and seco...

Contaminación por partículas en Chile: ¿Cuál es su asociación con enfermedades cardiovasculares?

Rev. méd. Chile; 151 (10), 2023

Ambient air pollutants relate to hospital admissions for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Ganzhou, China

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relationship between ambient air pollutants and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in relatively low-polluted areas in China. METHODS Atmospheric pollutants levels and meteorological data were obtained from January 2016 to December 2020. The medical database incl...

Air quality assessment in Southeast Brazil during COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown: report of increased air pollution

On March 24, 2020, a partial lockdown was decreed in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, as a measure to hinder the spread of COVID-19, which consisted in prohibiting crowding and advising people to stay home, except for urgent or extremely necessary matters. Based on studies performed in other countries, t...

Environmental air pollution: respiratory effects

J. bras. pneumol; 47 (1), 2021
ABSTRACT Environmental air pollution is a major risk factor for morbidity and mortality worldwide. Environmental air pollution has a direct impact on human health, being responsible for an increase in the incidence of and number of deaths due to cardiopulmonary, neoplastic, and metabolic diseases; it als...

Mortalidad aguda asociada con partículas suspendidas finas y gruesas en habitantes de la Zona Metropolitana de Monterrey

Salud pública Méx; 62 (5), 2020
Resumen Objetivo: Estimar el riesgo de mortalidad asociado con la exposición a partículas finas (PM2.5) y gruesas (PM2.5-10) en la Zona Metropolitana de Monterrey (ZMM). Material y métodos: Estudio ecológico con análisis retrospectivo de series de tiempo (2004-2014) de mortalidad total y específi...

Revisión rápida: contaminación del aire y morbimortalidad por Covid-19

Salud pública Méx; 62 (5), 2020
Resumen Objetivo: Analizar la evidencia sobre la relación entre la contaminación del aire y un riesgo mayor de morbimortalidad por Covid-19. Material y métodos: Se utilizó una adaptación de la metodología de revisiones rápidas de Cochrane. La búsqueda se realizó en PubMed y MedRxiv y se limitÃ...

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...

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...