Category Archives: Air Quality

Welcome to winter in Utah, gunky inversions and how to stay informed

Posted on December 22, 2021 by Respro® UK Ltd

Welcome to winter and Utah’s first prolonged inversion this season that is choking the Wasatch Front and Cache Valley, leading to mandatory action that prohibits the use of wood-burning devices and has regulators urging people to stay out of their … Continue reading →

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Ambulance call-outs for heart attacks rise when air pollution is high, German study finds

Posted on December 21, 2021 by Respro® UK Ltd

Ambulance call outs for heart attacks are more common on days when air pollution levels are high, according to new research being presented at Euroanaesthesia, the annual meeting of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC), held online … Continue reading →

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Meat-eating causes 75,000 Chinese deaths a year through pollution

Posted on December 20, 2021 by Respro® UK Ltd

Dietary shifts towards eating more meat causes 75,000 premature deaths a year in China through air pollution, a study shows.  The study, published in the journal Nature Food, is the first to examine how changes in diets in China from … Continue reading →

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Specific components of air pollution identified as more harmful than others

Posted on December 17, 2021 by Respro® UK Ltd

New estimates can help reveal dangers of specific chemicals and inform policies to reduce the impact of air pollution on human health Ammonium is one of the specific components of fine particulate matter (PM2.5), that has been linked to a … Continue reading →

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Air pollution can cause serious health consequences to more than 600 million people in South Asia

Posted on December 16, 2021 by Respro® UK Ltd

With another smoggy winter hanging over the vast and thickly populated Indo-Gangetic plains, there are fears of serious health consequences to more than 600 million people living in northern India and Nepal as well as in eastern Pakistan and Bangladesh. … Continue reading →

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The tightened recommendations for air quality by WHO pose new challenges even to Finland

Posted on December 15, 2021 by Respro® UK Ltd

Air pollution concentrations in Finland exceed most of the values of WHO’s new air quality guidelines. The situation is the worst with nitrogen dioxide from exhaust emissions of transport. The World Health Organisation WHO has updated its air quality guidelines. … Continue reading →

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Reduced vehicle emissions have saved thousands of lives

Posted on December 14, 2021 by Respro® UK Ltd

Since 2008, the number of deaths caused by air pollution have been reduced by thousands in the United States as a result of decreasing vehicle emissions, according to a new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. … Continue reading →

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Chronic exposure to air pollution may increase risks for ICU admission or death among COVID-19 patients, study finds

Posted on December 10, 2021 by Respro® UK Ltd

Hospitalized COVID-19 patients who had been chronically exposed in their neighborhoods to higher particulate matter — such as smoke, soot, and dirt — had increased risks for admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) and death compared to those without … Continue reading →

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