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Traffic related exposures and lung function in adults
Traffic related exposures and lung function in adults
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Dr Fernando Holguin
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Davis-Fisher Building, 550 Peachtree Street, NE, 2nd Floor, Room 2331, Atlanta, Georgia 30308, USA; fch5@cdc.gov
Are women more susceptible?
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It is widely known that exposure to outdoor air pollution is associated with acute and chronic changes in expiratory lung volumes. However, most of these studies have assessed exposure to air pollutants using monitors that primarily measure background levels. While this method may be useful in estimating exposure to ozone, it may not provide an adequate estimate of exposure to other pollutants that display small area spatial variations such as ultrafine particulate matter, elemental carbon, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and nitrogen dioxide.1–5 Evidence that there is considerable spatial variability in the concentration of traffic related pollutants has sparked interest in assessing the health effects associated with vehicular emissions. Several studies have found that exposure to traffic related emissions are associated with higher rates of adverse respiratory health outcomes including increased respiratory symptoms,6 reduced lung expiratory volumes,7 increased airway inflammation8 and higher rates of
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