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Advanced Topics in Environmental Health and Air Pollution Case Studies

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The book describes the effects of air pollutants, from the indoor and outdoor spaces, on the human physiology. Air pollutants can influence inflammation biomarkers, can influence the pathogenesis of chronic cough, can influence reactive oxygen species (ROS) and can induce autonomic nervous system interactions that modulate cardiac oxidative stress and cardiac electrophysiological changes, can participate in the onset and exacerbation of upper respiratory and cardio-vascular diseases, can lead to the exacerbation of asthma and allergic diseases. The book also presents how the urban environment can influence and modify the impact of various pollutants on human health.

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Publisher

IntechOpen : InTechOpen., 2011

Collation

484 hlm; ill., lamp.,

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9789535164586

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NONE

Content Type

text

Media Type

computer

Carrier Type

online resource

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Subject(s)

Personal and public health / health education

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Statement of Responsibility

Maria Moldoveanu, Anca (editor)

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ida

Source

https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/65070

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

10.5772/997

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