Worsening air pollution could be contributing to childhood asthma cases in, a study carried out in Barcelona has found. The Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) collated asthma incidence rates in the city for children between 1 and 18 years of age and concluded that 48 per cent could be attributed to air pollution every year. Learn More
Putting more coal on the fire may help to keep off the chill, but it may not help your baby grow. New research found that the 3-year-old children of families who reported using coal for indoor heating were shorter than those whose families used cleaner fuels. Learn More
Numerous studies have indisputably demonstrated that particulate inhalation results in health problems far beyond the lungs14. For example, research in different areas of the world with high15, moderate16, and low17 ambient PM showed that long-term exposure to particulate air pollution impedes cognitive performance. Accordingly, Maher et al.18 could detect the presence of combustion-derived nanoparticles from air pollution in the frontal cortex of autopsy brain samples. More importantly, the latter was one of the first studies that provided evidence of particle translocation in humans. Recently, we found BC particles from ambient air pollution in the urine of healthy children19, showing the ubiquity of this environmental contaminant having the potential to reach various organ systems. Learn More
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