Franklin PJ, Loveday J, Cook A: Unflued gas heaters and respiratory symptoms in older people with asthma. Thorax 2012, 67(4):315-20.Franklin PJ, Loveday J, Cook A. Unflued gas heaters and respiratory symptoms in older people with asthma. Thorax 2012;67:315-20....
Background Unflued gas heaters (UFGHs) and cookers are a major contributor to air pollution in homes. Gas appliances have been associated with adverse respiratory outcomes in children and, less consistently, adults. There have been very few studies on the effects of gas appliances on the respira...
a smoke conduit, a passage for discharge of flue gases from space-heating furnaces, stoves, water heaters, and the like. In brick buildings flues are generally placed inside the inner main walls (the thickness of the flue wall must be at least half the width of a brick). Flues are frequ...
It has also been agreed that the minimum acceptable medium to long-term goal to protect public health from the risks of unflued gas heaters is the removal of unflued gas heaters within five years from the point of sale.EBSCO_AspClean Air & Environmental Quality...
In homes the primary source of NO2 is gas appliances, such as heaters and cookers. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of gas appliances on both indoor residential concentrations and personal exposure to NO2 in Perth, Western Australia. Residential NO2 concentrations and ...
The aim of the current studies was to determine the exposure of elderly patients with existing respiratory disease to combustion gases from unflued gas heaters (UFGH). The first study collected questionnaire data on the home environment from a sample of patients with chronic obstructive disease (...
(2004) Room chamber assessment of the pollutant emission properties of (nominally) low-emission unflued gas heaters, Indoor Air, 14, 84-91.S. K. Brown, K. J. Mahoney et M. Cheng : Room chamber assessment of the pollutant emission properties of (nominally) low-emission unflued gas ...