Prenatal ambient air pollution exposure and the risk of stillbirth: systematic review and meta-analysis of the empirical evidence
作者:Siddika N
发布时间:2016
Background: Individual studies on the relations between ambient air pollution and the risk of stillbirth have provided contradictory results. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to summarise the existing evidence. Methods: We conducted a systematic search of three databases: PubMed...
An evidence-based assessment for the association between long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution and the risk of lung cancer
作者:Yang WS
发布时间:2016
Although outdoor air pollution has been identified as carcinogenic to humans, the magnitude of the relative risk (RR) and the 95% confidence interval (CI) for lung cancer in relation to outdoor air pollution remain uncertain. On a global scale, we quantified the risk of lung cancer associated wit...
Short-term exposure to air pollution and morbidity of COPD and asthma in East Asian area: A systematic review and meta-analysis
作者:Zhang S
发布时间:2016
Background: The association between short-term exposure to air pollution and morbidity of COPD and asthma has been observed in many studies. However, there is a lack of systematic review of the overall risk ratios in East Asian area to provide scientific evidence for health risk assessment. Metho...
Short-Term Exposure to Air Pollution and Cardiac Arrhythmia: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review
作者:Song X
发布时间:2016
The objective was to assess the transient association between air pollution and cardiac arrhythmia. Five databases were searched for studies investigating the association between daily increases in air pollutants (PM2.5, PM10, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide and ozone) and arrhy...
Respiratory health outcomes and air pollution in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: a systematic review
作者:Abdo N
发布时间:2016
Exposure to air pollution can cause detrimental health and be an economic burden. With newly developed equipment, monitoring of different air pollutants, identifying the sources, types of air pollutants and their corresponding concentrations, and applying mitigation intervention techniques became...