Sentences with phrase «term air pollution exposure»

The Six Cities81 and ACS4, 5,82 studies provide strong evidence for the occurrence of adverse cardiovascular effects due to long - term air pollution exposure.

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In «Long - term Coarse PM Exposure Is Associated with Asthma Among Children in Medicaid,» researchers report that coarse particulate matter, the kind of air pollution created by physical processes such as tire and break wear, agricultural tilling, salt spray and dust created in manufacturing, appears to put children at greater risk for asthma, independent of exposure to fine particulate poExposure Is Associated with Asthma Among Children in Medicaid,» researchers report that coarse particulate matter, the kind of air pollution created by physical processes such as tire and break wear, agricultural tilling, salt spray and dust created in manufacturing, appears to put children at greater risk for asthma, independent of exposure to fine particulate poexposure to fine particulate pollution.

Nadeau has discovered that in the Fresno children, long - term exposure to air pollution and secondhand smoke switched off two specific genes.

Long - term exposure to air pollution has been linked to an increased risk of heart disease, but the biological process has not been understood.

Long term exposure to air pollution may be linked to heart attacks and strokes by speeding up atherosclerosis, or «hardening of the arteries,» according to a study by U.S. researchers published in this week's PLOS Medicine.

(For the general population of women in the study, the researchers found that long - term exposure to air pollution led to small, but not statistically significant, increases in risk of cardiovascular events.)

«It may be, though, that long - term exposure to air pollution makes people more susceptible to ALRI on a routine basis, although additional studies will be required to test this hypothesis.»

There, she met a team of physicians connected with the Children's Environmental Health Center at the University of Southern California who were conducting a long - term study on the link between chronic exposure to air pollution from freeway traffic and respiratory illnesses.

«These results greatly strengthen the case that long - term exposure to particulates air pollution causes substantial reductions in life expectancy.

In some instances, at age 18, the effect of long - term exposure to higher air pollution was larger than the effect of gaining 5 percent body weight, meaning air pollution is definitely a risk factor for diabetes, said Tanya Alderete, lead author of the study and a postdoctoral research scholar at the Keck School of Medicine.

«Moreover, we know that lowering exposure to air pollution anywhere will be beneficial to children's health and long - term potential.»

«There's a lack of research regarding long - term exposure to air pollution in some of the world's most polluted places, including India,» said Aaron Cohen, an epidemiologist at the Health Effects Institute in Boston.

He then simulated the effect of long - term exposure to increased air pollution (of 10 micrograms of small particles per cubic meter) on mortality.

We need to understand the true impact of long - term exposure to air pollution to develop better informed policies and reduce fossil fuel consumption.»

However to date, epidemiological studies that have examined associations between long - term exposure to traffic - related air pollution and type 2 diabetes in adults are inconsistent, and studies on insulin resistance in children are scarce.

Cardiovascular remodeling in response to long - term exposure to fine particulate matter air pollution.

They also studied the associations between long - term exposure to outdoor air pollution, exhaled 8 - iso and current asthma.

Havet explained the key findings: «For the first time in adults, we found associations between long - term exposures to outdoor air pollution, exhaled 8 - iso concentration and current asthma.

These intriguing findings suggest that longer - term exposure to PM air pollution may promote the chronic development of insulin resistance, obesity, and the metabolic syndrome.

A new study finds that long - term exposure to fine - particle air pollution — formed by the gasses of cars, power plants, and other sources — is associated with much higher mortality rates from cancers of the breast, upper digestive tract, and other organs.

Long - term exposure to air pollution in the four San Francisco Bay Area counties may cause an additional 208 cases of cancer for every million residents, mostly attributable to benzene and butadiene, byproducts of petroleum fuel combustion.

Long - term exposure to air pollution in four San Francisco Bay Area counties may cause an additional 208 cases of cancer for every million residents, mostly attributable to benzene and butadiene, byproducts of petroleum fuel combustion.