Effects of Particulate Air Pollution on Asthmatic Subjects |
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12-hour collection period 12-hour period 7AM 7PM 7AM 7PM 7AM 7PM air pollution airways obstruction symptoms Allergy Alupent as-needed PRN asthmatic subjects average barometric pressure BOUNDS Multiple Linear Bronkometer Bronkosol carbon monoxide coarse IPM sulfates Coarse Sulfates covariate daily Denver Station 7AM Denver Station West dichotomous samplers Dzubay TG East environmental and meteorologic environmental variables expiratory flow rates FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION gaseous air quality health status measurements hyperreactivity inhaled particulate matter IPM components IPM nitrates LEAPS AND BOUNDS linear regression analyses March 31 Mean SD MEANS AND STANDARD meteorologic variables methacholine multiple linear regression nebulizer chronolog ozone p-values particulate matter IPM peak expiratory flow Peak Flow Meter period January prescreening random effects model relationships report of airways Research Triangle Park signed rank test STANDARD ERRORS Station 7AM 7PM Station West Denver subjective report sulfates and nitrates sulfur dioxide suspended particulates Symptomatology temperature West Denver Station WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS
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Page ii - Environmental Research Laboratory, US Environmental Protection Agency, and approved for publication. Mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute endorsement or recommendation for use. FOREWORD The...
Page iii - These regulations serve to enhance the quality of our environment in order to promote the public health and welfare and the productive capacity of our Nation's population. The Health Effects Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park, conducts a coordinated environmental health research program in toxicology, epidemiology, and clinical studies using human volunteer subjects.
Page iii - Park, conducts a coordinated environmental health research program in toxicology, epidemiology, and clinical studies using human volunteer subjects. These studies address problems in air pollution, non-ionizing radiation, environmental carcinogenesis and the toxicology of pesticides as well as other chemical pollutants. The Laboratory participates in the development and revision of air quality criteria documents on pollutants for which national ambient air quality standards exist or are proposed,...
Page iii - Careful assessment of the relative risk of existing and new man-made environmental hazards is necessary for the establishment of sound regulatory policy. These regulations serve to enhance the quality of our environment in order to promote the public health and welfare and the productive capacity of our Nation's population. The Health Effects Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park, conducts a coordinated environmental health research program in toxicology, epidemiology, and clinical studies...
Page 52 - Observations on subjective symptomatology, coping behavior, and medical decisions in asthma. Psychosomatic Medicine, 39, l02-ll9.
Page iii - The many benefits of our modern, developing, industrial society are accompanied by certain hazards. Careful assessment of the relative risk of existing and new man-made environmental hazards is necessary for the establishment of sound regulatory policy. These regulations serve to enhance the quality of our environment in order to promote the public health and welfare and the productive capacity of our Nation's population.