Ambient air quality standards for PM2.5, PM10and SO2poorly complied with WHO guideline values. The agreement was higher for CO, SO2(10-min averaging time) and NO2. Regulatory differences mirror the differences in air quality and the related burden of disease around the globe. Governments world...
Multi-year objective analyses of warm season ground-level ozone and PM2.5 over North America using real-time observations and Canadian operational air quality models. Atmos Chem Phys. 2014;14(4):1769-1800. doi:10.5194/acp-14-1769-2014Google ScholarCrossref 29. Bechle MJ...
The development by WHO of health‐related guideline values is presented, compared and evaluated for both ambient and indoor air pollutants. A comparison table is given. By means of two additional tables, the state of present knowledge is exhibited with regard to exposure‐response relationships ...
We conducted sensitivity analyses, including multipollutant DLMs with all air pollutants included as separate cross-bases, complete-case analysis by removing participants with missing values of covariates, DLMs with different number and location of knots in the cross-basis, and DLMs adjusting for PSS,...
Annual average concentrations of PM2·5 and NO2 at participants' residences were well below the EU air quality standards values of 25 μg/m3 for PM2·5 and 40 μg/m3 for NO2, although the PM2·5 level exceeded the WHO guideline value of 10 μg/m3 (table 2). Correlations between ai...
The average values of readings from the second to the last measurement within a 5-mmHg range of difference were used as the final BP values as described in a previous study (Wu et al., 2013). FeNO was measured using a portable NIOX VERO machine (Aerocrine AB, Solna, Sweden) following ...
In particular, emerging research has recently focused on the effects of outdoor air pollution on sleep, as 91% of the worldwide population lives in places where the World Health Organization (WHO) ambient air quality guideline levels are not met [11]. Nevertheless, the relationship between ...
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Distributed lag models (DLMs), which account for both current and past values of the exposure, were used to examine monthly averages of air pollutants in relation to TT4. These models were conducted using the dlnm package in R.28 These analyses were restricted to full- and late-term ...
Long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, but evidence is unclear on the health effects of exposure to pollutant concentrations lower than current EU and US standards and WHO guideline limits. Within the multicentre study Effects of Low-Level Air Poll...