J. Anto (Barcelona, Spain), D. Norback (Uppsala, Sweden), L. Smit (Utrecht, Netherlands)
LATE-BREAKING ABSTRACT: Ambient polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and pulmonary function in children A. Padula, J. Balmes, E. Eisen, J. Mann, E. Noth, B. Pratt, F. Lurmann, S. K. Hammond (San Francisco, Berkeley, Palo Alto, Petaluma, United States Of America)
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Effect of environmental pollution on the control of bronchial asthma and fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) M. Ariza, R. Fernandez, G. Sebastian, M. Iscar, C. Madrid, A. Pando, M. Montoliu, P. Casan (Oviedo, Spain)
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Impact of traffic-related air pollutants on the reduction of spirometric parameters. Warsaw study A. Badyda, P. Dabrowiecki, W. Lubinski, P. O. Czechowski, G. Majewski, A. Gayer (Warsaw, Gdynia, Poland)
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Black carbon as a new air quality and health indicator of limited traffic zone (LTZ) interventions: The results of the ‘Area C’ monitoring campaigns at residential and kerbside sites in Milan, Italy S. Moroni, A. Ruprecht, G. Tosti, B. Villavecchia, G. Mocnik, C. Sioutas, D. Westerdahl, G. Invernizzi (Milan, Italy; Lubljana, Slovenia; Los Angeles, Ithaca (NY), United States Of America)
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Long term air pollution exposure and COPD in SALIA: Discrepancies between ESCAPE results and published evidence in SALIA T. Schikowski, A. Vierkötter, D. Sugiri, N. Probst-Hensch, N. Künzli, U. Krämer (Basel, Switzerland; Düsseldorf, Germany)
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Prevalence of COPD and its risk factors in a rural area of Uganda F. van Gemert, B. Kirenga, N. Chavannes, M. Kamya, S. Luzige, P. Muzinguzi, C. de Jong, R. Jones, I. Tsiligianni, T. van der Molen (Groningen, Leiden, Netherlands; Kampala, Uganda; Plymouth, United Kingdom)
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Physical activity in officially-acknowledged victims with pollution-related illness: Long-term effects of air pollution in the 1960s T. Tanaka, N. Miyamoto, R. Kozu, S. Honda, H. Senjyu (Nagasaki, Japan)
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Mustard gas exposure causing death due to respiratory tract cancer and chronic bronchitis in the long term K. Mukaida, N. Ishikawa, Y. Nishimura, Y. Horimasu, Y. Ohnari, H. Iwamoto, S. Ohshimo, K. Kondo, N. Hattori, N. Kohno (Hiroshima, Takehara, Japan)
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The correlation between urbanization and mortality of common respiratory diseases in China C. Wan, F. Zhan, L. Jia, Q. Hu, F. Wen (Chengdu, Xiamen, China)
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Bronchial anthracosis-anthracofibrosis: Potential causes and clinical features E. Yilmazel Ucar, O. Araz, M. Akgun, M. Meral, L. Saglam, H. Kaynar, M. Gorguner (Erzurum, Turkey)
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Spirometry changes due to prolonged exposure to high level of fluoride in drinking water N. Saifullah, I. Ahmed, S. Qayyum, N. Khan, M. H. Khan (Karachi, Pakistan)
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Volatile organic compounds and risk of asthma and allergy: A systematic review of observational and interventional studies U. B. Nurmatov, N. Tagiyeva, S. Semple, G. Devereux, A. Sheikh (Edinburgh, Aberdeen, United Kingdom)
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Asthma and rhinitis symptoms among parents of preschool children in relation to the home environment in Chongqing, China J. Wang, B. Li, Q. Yang, H. Wang, D. Norback, J. Sundell (Chongqing, Beijing, China; Uppsala, Sweden)
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Microbial toxins, moisture damage and asthma J. Pekkanen, P. Kirjavainen, M. Sulyok, M. Täubel, A. Karvonen, R. Krska, A. Hyvärinen (Kuopio, Finland; Tulln, Austria)
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Indoor air quality: Presence of students in a classroom changes levels of air-borne particulate matter M. Balzan, D. Bilocca, C. Zammit, S. Montefort (Tal Qroqq, Malta)
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Airborne concentration of limonene (a volatile organic compound (VOC)), when using a spray of 41 essential oils S. Ortega, A. S. Weiler, M. Ott, A. Dazy, F. de Blay (Strasbourg, France)
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Association of lung function with waterpipe (shisha) tobacco use in healthy adults A. Chouhan, C. Nwokoro, R. Brugha, N. Mushtaq, J. Grigg (London, United Kingdom)
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Relationship between cellular immunity and functional lung tests in COPD patients – Clean-up workers of the Chernobyl catastrophe in the remote period after the accident K. Bazyka, V. Sushko, L. Shvayko (Kiev, Ukraine)
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Screening for allergy in elite marathon runners R. Nakata Teixeira, F. A. Rodrigues Mendes, M. Arruda Martins, C. R. Fernandes Carvalho (São Paulo, Brazil)
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Frequency of pulmonary hypertension in patients with COPD - Clean-up workers of Chernobyl catastrophe O. Apostolova, V. Sushko, O. Tatarenko (Kyiv, Ukraine)
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