Search
Now showing items 81-90 of 172
Tobacco control and the ERS: new problems and old foes
(European Respiratory Society, 2021-01-05)
Differential association of air pollution exposure with neonatal and postneonatal mortality in England and Wales: A cohort study.
(Public Library of Science, 2020-10)
BACKGROUND: Many but not all studies suggest an association between air pollution exposure and infant mortality. We sought to investigate whether pollution exposure is differentially associated with all-cause neonatal or ...
Asthma prescribing according to Arg16Gly beta-2 genotype: a randomized trial in adolescents
The A allele of rs1042713 (Arg16 amino acid) in the β2-adrenoreceptor is associated with poor response to long-acting β2-agonist (LABA) in young people with asthma. Our aim was to assess whether the prescribing of second-line ...
Evidence for the presence of air pollution nanoparticles in placental tissue cells
Inhaled particulate matter (PM) from combustion- and frictionsourced air pollution adversely affects organs distant from the lung. A putative mechanism for the remote effect of inhaled PM is that ultrafine, nano-sized ...
Biomass Smoke and Infection: Mechanisms of Interaction
(2011-01-01)
© 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. The mechanisms underlying the association between exposure to air pollution and vulnerability to infection remain to be fully defined. However, both animal and in vitro studies ...