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Title: | The detrimental health effects of traffic-related air pollution: a role for DNA methylation? | Authors: | NAWROT, Tim Adcock, Ian |
Issue Date: | 2009 | Publisher: | AMER THORACIC SOC, 1740 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, NY 10019-4374 USA | Source: | AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE, 179(7). p. 523-524 | Abstract: | Exposure to air pollution and particularly that from diesel engines has been known for many years to affect asthma symptoms and hospitalizations (1) as well as all-cause (2) and cardiovascular mortality (3). Indeed, it has been shown that 2 hours of walking in shopping areas with high levels of diesel fumes (Oxford Street, London) containing ultrafine particles and elemental carbon can result in a significant loss of lung function and an increase in inflammatory mediators (4). Such changes were rapid and prolonged with a return to normal lung function occurring between 5 and 22 hours. The effect of chronic exposure was not examined. | Keywords: | air pollution, epidemiology | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/9864 | ISSN: | 1073-449X | e-ISSN: | 1535-4970 | DOI: | 10.1164/rccm.200812-1900ED | Category: | M | Type: | Journal Contribution |
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