Environment, air pollution, health and respiratory disease

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Chairs: R. Costello (Dublin 9, Ireland), R. Duarte (Porto, Portugal)
Aims: To discuss the need for clean air by patients with asthma and allergies; to explain the impact of air pollutants on the early origins of airway disease; to present the main effects of heat on health and its interaction with air pollution; to explain the link between inhaled therapies and pollution.

The need for clean air: asthma and allergy B. Hoffmann (Düsseldorf, Germany)
Air pollutants: mechanisms in the early origins of airway disease S. Carraro (Padova (PD), Italy)
Beyond heat stroke: effects of heat on health A. Vicedo-Cabrera (Bern, Switzerland)
Inhaled therapies: plastics, propellants, and pollutants O. Usmani (London, United Kingdom)
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