Sentences with phrase «term ozone exposure»
This article quantifies the global impact of long - term ozone exposure on respiratory mortality.
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A new study of 60 million Americans — about 97 % of people age 65 and older in the United States — shows that long - term exposure to airborne fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ozone increases the risk of premature death, even when that exposure is at levels below the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) currently established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
In this section, we consider the population within a 5 km radius around a TOAR ozone monitoring station; hereafter referred to as the «monitored population», and estimate their exposure in terms of exceedances of one metric: NDGT60.
As noted above, the first three metrics are associated with regulatory standards in different world regions for the protection of human health to acute or short - term exposure to ozone.
Long - term exposure to high levels of road traffic and ozone significantly increases the risk of asthma symptoms, asthma attacks or the need for use of asthma medications, according to a new study published in the European Respiratory Journal [1].