The findings, published online today (22 March 2013) ahead of print in the European Respiratory Journal, come as the European Commission has declared 2013 the 'Year of Air', which highlights the importance of clean air for all and focuses on actions to improve air quality across the EU.
Until now, traffic pollution was assumed to only trigger asthma symptoms and burden estimations did not account for chronic asthma caused by the specific range of toxicants that are found near heavily used roads along which many Europeans live.
The researchers used a method known as population-attributable fractions to assess the impact of near-road traffic pollution. This calculates the proportional reduction in disease or death that would occur if exposure to a risk factor were reduced to a lower level.
The new research used data from existing epidemiological studies which found that children exposed to higher levels of near-road traffic-related pollution also had higher rates of asthma, even when taking into account a range of other relevant factors such as passive smoking or socioeconomic factors.
The researchers aimed to take these findings further and estimate how many asthma cases could be avoided if exposure was removed….
A smoggy day in Brussels, shot by Belfius, Wikimedia Commons, under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license
4 comments:
Woah! I'm really loving the template/theme of this website. It's simple,
yet effective. A lot of times it's very difficult to get that "perfect balance" between usability and visual appeal. I must say you have done a excellent job with this. In addition, the blog loads extremely fast for me on Internet explorer. Outstanding Blog!
Here is my blog; stump rotting
Mens Masturbators like the fl7729 fleshlight Stamina unit, The Tenga Fliphole TG-THF004 If
you need bright light, flashlights exist in our lives.
Now that the new fleshlight.
And the one thing most critical in regards to an" anti porn" curriculum.
With havin so much written content do you ever run into any problems of
plagorism or copyright infringement? My site has a lot of completely unique content I've either written myself or outsourced but it seems a lot of it is popping it up all over the web without my authorization. Do you know any ways to help protect against content from being ripped off? I'd genuinely appreciate it.
Also visit my homepage - arrogantness
Post a Comment