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Airborne Mold and Endotoxin Concentrations in New Orleans, Louisiana, after Flooding, October through November 2005 (Environ Health Perspect. 2006) "Conclusions: The high concentration of mold measured indoors and outdoors in the New Orleans area is likely to be a significant respiratory hazard that should be monitored over time. Workers and returning residents should use appropriate personal protective equipment and exposure mitigation techniques to prevent respiratory morbidity and long-term health effects."
Air Pollution Boosts Death Rates
Air pollution linked to fatal heart attacks: 40 percent greater risk for people living in areas with dirty air, report finds "The researchers also found that people who had ever lived in pollution "hot spots" with particularly dirty air had a 23 percent increased risk of heart attack, and a 40 percent increased risk of fatal heart attack."
Air Pollution Linked to Lung Cancer: Study may explain why some nonsmokers get the disease
Cities listed by unenviable title: Worst polluted
Common Household Chemical May Harm Lung Function "Air fresheners, toilet bowl cleaners, moth balls and other deodorizing products may be easy on the nose but tough on the lungs. The reason: Exposure to a chemical compound commonly found in such products may cause reduced lung function and have a long-term adverse effect on respiratory health, researchers report. This finding could be especially important for people with breathing problems, such as asthma, they add."
Environmental Toxins Passed Down Through Generations "Imagine this: Your great-grandmother was exposed to an environmental toxin while she was pregnant with your grandmother. Now you and your children are suffering consequences like cancer and kidney disease even though you were never exposed to the toxin yourself."
Farm Worker's Kids Show High Pesticide Exposures
FEMA TRAILERS 'TOXIC TIN CANS'?
Harmful chemicals may leach from septic systems
Health Tip: If You Find Mold in the House
Isn't it Ionic? Air purifiers make smog
Mold Toxin Destroys Olfactory Cells in Mice "Mold seems ubiquitous: it permeates spaces made damp by leaking water lines, faulty roofs, or storm flooding. Although no one contests that its slimy presence is a general nuisance, its related adverse health effects have been the subject of some controversy. Now researchers at Michigan State University's Center for Integrative Toxicology have found that a toxin produced by the black mold Stachybotrys chartarum can damage nerve cells key to the sense of smell, at least in the noses of mice ."
Pesticide Exposure Damages Nervous System, Brain "In laboratory tests with rats, the researchers found that pesticide exposure caused changes in the same areas of the brain involved in multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease. Pesticides can also cause severe damage to the gastrointestinal system and cause neurological dysfunction, the researchers said."
Petrochemicals linked to leukemia in young adults "Residential exposure to petrochemicals is associated with an elevated risk of leukemia among adults in their 20s, according to a new report."
Should You 'Go Green' When You Clean?
Solid fuels kill 1.5 million people per year-UN
Susceptibility to pesticides highly variable among Latina women and children
The Secret Lives of Houseplants: Plants help pull pollutants out of air "Besides looking nice and adding a bit of oxygen to the air, houseplants may actually perform a small service—certain types may help remove pollutants from indoor air. Early studies singled out spider plants, one of the hardiest and most ubiquitous of houseplants, as doing a good job, along with some daisies, chrysanthemums, bamboo palm, aloe vera, English ivy, philodendron, ficus, and golden pothos. The pollutants the plants helped remove included formaldehyde, benzene, and trichloroethylene. … How many plants does it take to get a substantial effect? Some researchers say you would need a veritable forest. The EPA says there's no solid evidence that a “reasonable amount” of houseplants remove a significant amount of pollutants."
Top 25 Towns for Clean Air, Dirty Air
U.S.: Most rivers, streams have pesticides
WHO issues air quality guidelines to reduce deaths "The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday that drastically reducing air pollution in cities could prevent 120,000 deaths a year from respiratory infections, heart disease and lung cancer."
Your Workplace Can Leave You Feeling Ill
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JOURNAL ARTICLES:
A Case for Revisiting the Safety of Pesticides: A Closer Look at Neurodevelopment (Environ Health Perspect. 2006)
Adverse health effects of outdoor air pollutants. (Environ Int. 2006) "Air pollution is associated with large increases in medical expenses, morbidity and is estimated to cause about 800,000 annual premature deaths worldwide . "
[Air pollution and the lung : epidemiological approach.] (Med Sci (Paris). 2006) "Short-term effects of outdoor air pollution include changes in lung function, respiratory symptoms and mortality due to respiratory causes. Increase in the use of health care resources has also been associated with short-term effects of air pollution. Long-term effects of cumulated exposure to urban air pollution include lung growth impairment, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), lung cancer, and probably the development of asthma and allergies. Lung cancer and COPD have been related to a shorter life expectancy. Common indoor pollutants are environmental tobacco smoke, particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds and biological allergens. Concentrations of these pollutants can be many times higher indoors than outdoors."
Air pollution and type 1 diabetes in children. (Pediatr Diabetes. 2006) "Conclusion: Cumulative exposure to ozone and sulfate in ambient air may predispose to the development of type 1 diabetes in children. Early infant formula feeding and passive smoking in the household may precipitate or accelerate the onset of type 1 diabetes."
Airborne Mold and Endotoxin Concentrations in New Orleans, Louisiana, after Flooding, October through November 2005 (Environ Health Perspect 2006) "Conclusions: The high concentration of mold measured indoors and outdoors in the New Orleans area is likely to be a significant respiratory hazard that should be monitored over time. Workers and returning residents should use appropriate personal protective equipment and exposure mitigation techniques to prevent respiratory morbidity and long-term health effects."
Analysing the causes of chronic cough: Relation to diesel exhaust, ozone, nitrogen oxides, sulphur oxides and other environmental factors. (J Occup Med Toxicol. 2006) "In summary, next to the well-known air pollutants which also include particulate matter and sulphur dioxide, a number of other indoor and outdoor pollutants have been demonstrated to cause chronic cough and therefore, environmental factors have to be taken into account as potential initiators of both adult and pediatric chronic cough."
Arsenic, Cadmium, Lead, and Mercury in surface soils, Pueblo, Colorado: implications for population health risk. (Environ Geochem Health. 2006)
Assessing and Managing Methylmercury Risks Associated With Power Plant Mercury Emissions in the United States (Medscape General Medicine. 2006)
Effect of particulate air pollution on lung function in adult and pediatric subjects in a Seattle panel study. (Chest. 2006) "CONCLUSIONS: This study found consistent decrements in MMEF in children with asthma who were not receiving medications. It is notable that effects were observed even though PM exposures were low for an urban area. These findings suggest the need for future larger studies of PM effects in this susceptible population that repeatedly measure spirometry to include MMEF and potentially more sensitive markers of airway inflammation such as exhaled breath condensate and exhaled nitric oxide."
Elevated hair levels of cadmium and lead in school children exposed to smoking and in highways near schools. (lin Biochem. 2006) "CONCLUSION:: These findings support the public health recommendations that children should not have household exposure to smoking, schools should not be near to the main streets and unleaded gasoline use should be promoted."
Environmental mercury contamination in China: Sources and impacts. (Environ Int. 2006) "The second case study indicated that the male residents of Hong Kong who consumed more than four or more meals of fish per week tended to contain higher Hg in their hair, which was linked to their subfertility. There is also increasing evidence showing that skin disorders and autism in Hong Kong children are related to their high Hg body loadings (hair, blood and urine), through prenatal methyl Hg exposure."
Environmental mercury release, special education rates, and autism disorder: an ecological study of Texas. (Health Place. 2006)
[Environment-related contact allergies.] (Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz. 2006)
Estimating the effect of air pollution from a coal-fired power station on the development of children's pulmonary function. (Environ Res. 2006) "As we conclude, air pollution from a coal-fired power station, although not exceeding local pollution standards, had a negative effect on children's lung function development."
Fine Particulate Air Pollution and Mortality in Nine California Counties: Results from CALFINE. (Environ Health Perspect. 2006)
Household exposure to pesticides and risk of childhood acute leukaemia. (Occup Environ Med. 2006)
Individual and family household smoking habits as risk factors for wheezing among adolescents. (Prev Med. 2006) "CONCLUSION.: Individual, maternal and other family members' indoor smoking habits may increase the risk of wheezing among adolescents."
Induction of asthma and the environment: what we know and need to know. (Environ Health Perspect. 2006) "The prevalence of asthma has increased dramatically over the last 25 years in the United States and in other industrialized nations as a result of ill-defined changes in living conditions in modern Western society (Pew Environmental Health Commission 2000; Mannino et al. 2002). Exposure to air pollutants, including tobacco smoke, ozone, and diesel exhaust, increases the risk of developing asthma (Gilmour et al. 2006) and may be contributing to this trend. In addition, indoor exposures to allergens and to other biologics have been implicated in the increased incidence of asthma because more time is spent indoors and indoor environments have been made more airtight to improve energy efficiency (Bush 2001; Zeldin et al. 2006). However, other factors, including increased incidence of obesity, decreased exercise, change in diet, decreased exposure to microbial products during early life (the hygiene hypothesis), and increased viral respiratory infections (e.g., from daycare facilities), are all possible contributors to the rise in asthma incidence (Yeatts et al. 2006)."
Inflammatory markers and particulate air pollution: characterizing the pathway to disease. (Int J Epidemiol. 2006) "BACKGROUND: Increased concentrations of particles in air have been related to changes in inflammatory markers that in turn are hypothesized in mediating the particle effects on cardiovascular disease. The present work examined this association in an elderly cohort in the Greater Boston area and addresses the relative role of particles from different sources. . CONCLUSIONS: The findings of the study support the hypothesis that particles can induce cardiovascular disease through inflammatory pathways, suggestive of a greater toxicity of traffic-related particles."
Neuropathies associated with excessive exposure to lead. (Muscle Nerve. 2006)
Reduction in Fine Particulate Air Pollution and Mortality (American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 2006)
Residential Insecticide Use and Risk of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2006)
The Effects of Air Pollution on Hospitalizations for Cardiovascular Disease in Elderly People in Australian and New Zealand Cities (EHP 2006) "Conclusions: The results suggest that air pollution arising from common emission sources for CO, NO2, and PM (e.g., motor vehicle exhausts) has significant associations with adult cardiovascular hospital admissions, especially in the elderly, at air pollution concentrations below normal health guidelines."
The exposure-response curve for ozone and risk of mortality and the adequacy of current ozone regulations. (Environ Health Perspect. 2006) "Our findings indicate that even low levels of tropospheric O3 are associated with increased risk of premature mortality. Interventions to further reduce O3 pollution would benefit public health, even in regions that meet current regulatory standards and guidelines."
The medical effects of mold exposure (Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 2006)
The relationship between ambient air pollution and heart rate variability differs for individuals with heart and pulmonary disease. (Environ Health Perspect. 2006) "Results indicate heterogeneity in the autonomic response to air pollution due to differences in baseline health, with significant associations for ambient NO2 suggesting an important role for traffic-related pollution."
The Swiss Cohort Study on Air Pollution and Lung Diseases in Adults (American Journal of Epidemiology 2006) "These findings among a general population provide strong confirmation that living near busy streets leads to adverse respiratory health effects."
Unidentified inert ingredients in pesticides: implications for human and environmental health. (Environ Health Perspect. 2006)
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