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... president of the National Academy of Engineering. The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions ... not written-up in detail and typically are not included in tables. COMPLEXITIES IN RESOLVING GULF WAR AND HEALTH ISSUES Investigations of the health effects of past wars have often focused ... Persian Gulf War. Annals of Internal Medicine 125(5):398-405. IOM (Institute of Medicine). 1995. Health Consequences of Service During the Persian Gulf War: Initial Findings and Recommendations...

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... demonstrating and documenting the adverse effects of air pollution in specific locales; quantifying the effects of short-term variation of air pollution (including air pollution episodes); and serving ... furthering understanding of exposure-response relationships. · All indicators of disease and health- related quality of life plausibly related to the exposures of interest should be considered in ... lack of knowledge about the timing of air pollution effects (e.g. critical ages, duration of exposure and persistence of effects) will add uncertainty to the impact assessment of chronic effects. ...

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... better understanding of the role of exposure to various pollutants in producing adverse effects on health and of the determinants of this exposure may improve the effectiveness of further action. ... programme of WHO supports all countries in the Region in developing and sustaining their own health policies, systems and programmes; preventing and overcoming threats to health; preparing for ... distances of less than 6 km. This leads to very high average emissions per distance driven, owing to the ineffectiveness of catalytic converters in the initial minutes of engine work. About 90% of...

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... alveolar in ammation, with release of media- tors capable, in susceptible individuals, of causing exac- erbations of lung disease and of increasing blood coagu- lability, thus also explaining the ... Analyses of Regional Dif- ferences in Short-Term Effects of Air Pollution on Daily Mortality in APHEA Cities. In Revised Analyses of Time-Series of Air Pollution and Health. Special Report; Health Effects ... various lines of research explored in this review have certainly helped connect some of the gaps in our knowledge regarding PM pollution and health. Other gaps remain unresolved, including: (1)...

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... mm in diameter) – Fine particles (< 2.5 mm in diameter) +  Other air toxics Wood Smoke % 0.00 5.00 10.00 15.00 Figure 1. Percent increase in risk (and 95% CI) of acute ... Statistics in Medicine and Epidemiology 2005) Poisson Regression Count data (non-negative integer values). Counts of independent and random occurrences classically modeled as being generated ... span, loess, cubic spline, etc.) How to control for weather? (smooths of temp & RH, synoptic weather, etc.) Modeling controversies Also: How to combine or integrate information from multiple...

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... are often huge due to high concentrations of pollutants in indoor air. Therefore, indoor exposure, including that in occupational settings, dominates total exposure for many pollutants. Indoor ... perezpad@servidor.unam.mx SUMMARY BREATHING OF POLLUTED AIR is as old as man- kind, particularly since the domestication of  re. Evi- dence of  re accompanied hominid remains from 500 000 years ago in China, 1 and offered ... only since the late 1970s, with the documentation of high indoor levels. Asbestos Asbestos may be found predominantly in insulation for heating systems, and mixed with cement, it is used in many...

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... item forms part of a reporting entity’s net investment in a foreign operation and is denominated in the functional currency of the reporting entity, an exchange difference arises in the foreign ... complying with International Financial Reporting Standards only if they comply with all the requirements of each applicable Standard and each applicable Interpretation of those Standards including ... accounting for foreign currency items, including the hedging of a net investment in a foreign operation. IAS 39 applies to hedge accounting. 6 This Standard applies to the presentation of an...

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... Distribution of individual concentrations of urinary cotinine by degree of self-reported exposure to ETS 3-44 3-16 Urinary cotinine concentrations by number of reported exposures to tobacco smoke in the ... cotinine/creatinine levels for subgroups of nonsmoking women defined by sampling categories of exposure or by self-reporting exposure to ETS from different sources during the 4 days preceding ... Lebowitz, Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Division of Respiratory Sciences, Tucson, AZ 85724 Dr. Howard Rockette, Professor of Biostatistics, School of Public...

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... presi- dent of the National Academy of Engineering. The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions ... bilayer, allowing molecules like DNA to pass into the cell. 3 Chains of living or nonliving particles (pearl chains) form along the lines of force of electro- magnetic fields (including RF fields). ... both indoors and outdoors. Mea- surements of the differences in the exposures generated by the use of these devices in these environments will be of value in determining if there are any health...

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... support the findings of the pilot study, 32 although findings on effects of short-term presence in traffic were reported. 33 Only the findings of the pilot study and the findings relating to being in traffic, ... report- ing of pulmonary effects in the review without consider- ing this finding indicates a lack of evenhandedness. Finally, there has been interest in the possibility of very short-term (over ... elevated human health risk. This case is supported by a large num- ber of studies, including Ͼ500 literature citations. The review represents most “mainstream thinking” in inter- pretation of the results...

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... resulting in the depositing at the feet of the chains of huge deposits of sand, gravel and clay. There then followed a phase of general increased marine predominance, lasting a good part of the ... modelling, filling in with detritus the internal Apennine depressions previously occupied by lakes (Val d'Arno, Val Tiberina, etc.) and also forming the plains at the edges of the peninsula and ... fact the Alpine rivers have a cycle conditioned by the winter snow cover, being high in the summer and low in the winter; while the pre-Alpine and northern Apennine source rivers are mainly rain-fed...

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... alveolar in ammation, with release of media- tors capable, in susceptible individuals, of causing exac- erbations of lung disease and of increasing blood coagu- lability, thus also explaining the ... Analyses of Regional Dif- ferences in Short-Term Effects of Air Pollution on Daily Mortality in APHEA Cities. In Revised Analyses of Time-Series of Air Pollution and Health. Special Report; Health Effects ... the health effects of PM at different time scales of exposure and in the exploration of the shape of the concentration-response function. The emerg- ing evidence of PM-related cardiovascular health...

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... most organs in your body are made up of a few different types of cells, the lung contains more than 40 different kinds of cells. Each of these cells is important to health and maintaining the body's ... studies of its health effects find other pollutants present that may account for some of the effects. Part of the problem is due to the nature of the data being collected. The levels of particulate ... all of that damage within a relatively short time in most healthy individuals. Research and Air Quality Standards Health scientists probably know more about the effects of ozone on human health...

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... 3B). Effect of quercetin on the copper-induced lipid peroxidation in preoxidized LDL In order to evaluate the effect of quercetin on the Cu 2+ - induced LPO in pre-oxidized LDL, LDL were first incuba- tedwithCu 2+ and ... estimated as the intercept of the linear part of the kinetics of diene formation shown in Fig. 2(B,D) with x-axis. Half times for carotenoid consumption were obtained from the kinetic of carotenoid ... 1993 Anti- and pro-oxidant effects of quercetin in copper-induced low density lipoprotein oxidation Quercetin as an effective antioxidant against pro-oxidant effects of urate Paulo Filipe 1,2 ,...

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