The effects of air pollution and temperature on COPD

NN Hansel, MC McCormack, V Kim - COPD: Journal of Chronic …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) affects 12–16 million people in
the United States and is the third-leading cause of death. In developed countries, smoking is …

Re-evaluation of the WHO (2010) formaldehyde indoor air quality guideline for cancer risk assessment

GD Nielsen, ST Larsen, P Wolkoff - Archives of toxicology, 2017 - Springer
Abstract In 2010, the World Health Organization (WHO) established an indoor air quality
guideline for short-and long-term exposures to formaldehyde (FA) of 0.1 mg/m 3 (0.08 ppm) …

Nursing home design and COVID-19: balancing infection control, quality of life, and resilience

DC Anderson, T Grey, S Kennelly, D O'Neill - Journal of the American …, 2020 - Elsevier
Many nursing home design models can have a negative impact on older people and these
flaws have been compounded by Coronavirus Disease 2019 and related infection control …

Indoor air quality in elderly centers: Pollutants emission and health effects

TM Mata, F Felgueiras, AA Martins, H Monteiro… - Environments, 2022 - mdpi.com
The world population is ageing, in particular in the developed world, with a significant
increase in the percentage of people above 60 years old. They represent a segment of the …

TD-GC/MS analysis of indoor air pollutants (VOCs, PM) in hair salons

C Kaikiti, M Stylianou, A Agapiou - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Hairdressing personnel is daily exposed to various chemical air pollutants, and specifically
to Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) and Particulate Matter (PM) in hair salons. This is of …

Effects on asthma and respiratory allergy of Climate change and air pollution

G D'amato, C Vitale, A De Martino, G Viegi… - Multidisciplinary …, 2015 - Springer
The major changes to our world are those involving the atmosphere and the climate,
including global warming induced by anthropogenic factors, with impact on the biosphere …

Health effects of exposure to indoor formaldehyde in civil buildings: A systematic review and meta-analysis on the literature in the past 40 years

N Liu, L Fang, W Liu, H Kan, Z Zhao, F Deng… - Building and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Exposure to indoor formaldehyde has been reported to be relevant to several adverse
health effects, especially in occupational exposure scenarios. In this study, a systematic …

A review of critical residential buildings parameters and activities when investigating indoor air quality and pollutants

MT Baeza_Romero, MR Dudzinska… - Indoor …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Indoor air in residential dwellings can contain a variety of chemicals, sometimes present at
concentrations or in combinations which can have a negative impact on human health …

Relative humidity in droplet and airborne transmission of disease

A Božič, M Kanduč - Journal of Biological Physics, 2021 - Springer
A large number of infectious diseases are transmitted by respiratory droplets. How long
these droplets persist in the air, how far they can travel, and how long the pathogens they …

[HTML][HTML] Systemic inequalities in indoor air pollution exposure in London, UK

L Ferguson, J Taylor, K Zhou, C Shrubsole… - Buildings & …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Deprived communities in many cities are exposed to higher levels of outdoor air pollution,
and there is increasing evidence of similar disparities for indoor air pollution exposure …