Air pollution and reversible chronic respiratory diseases

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease - Pulmonary Series

Volumn 57, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 164-166

  Del Donno, Mario ^a   Verduri, A ^b   Olivieri, D ^b  

^a G RUMMO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Bronchial asthma; COPD

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE DERIVATIVE; ALLERGEN; CARBON DIOXIDE; DNA; FREE RADICAL; HYDROCARBON; IRRITANT AGENT; KETONE DERIVATIVE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; NUCLEIC ACID; OZONE; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; SULFATE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ASTHMA; BRONCHOSPASM; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CHRONIC RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; COUGHING; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXHAUST GAS; FORCED EXPIRATORY FLOW; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEREDITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOUSE DUST; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ITALY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG DISEASE; MORTALITY; MUCOCILIARY CLEARANCE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MUCUS SECRETION; NONHUMAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POACEAE; POLLEN; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SMOKING; TRAFFIC; VIRUS; WHEEZING;

EID: 0036626917     PISSN: 11220643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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