Mind the gap

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 118, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1643-1645

  Smith, Kirk R ^a   Peel, Jennifer L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass smoke; Cardiovascular disease; Combustion particles; Cookstoves; Dose response relationship; Household air pollution; Indoor air pollution; Particulate matter; PM2.5

Indexed keywords

TOBACCO SMOKE;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; BIOMASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COMBUSTION; COOKING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HEATING; HUMAN; MORTALITY; NOTE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; BIOFUELS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; RISK FACTORS; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 78650274179     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1002517     Document Type: Note

References (35)

1. Ambrose JA, Barua RS. 2004. The pathophysiology of cigarette smoking and cardiovascular disease. J Am Coll Cardiol 43:1731-1737.
2. Barnoya J, Glantz SA. 2005. Cardiovascular effects of secondhand smoke. Nearly as large as smoking. Circulation 111:2684-2698.
3. Cohen AJ, Anderson HR, Ostro B, Pandey KD, Krzyzanowski M, Kuenzli N, et al. 2004. Mortality impacts of urban air pollution. In: Comparative Quantification of Health Risks: Global and Regional Burden of Disease Attributable to Selected Major Risk Factors, Vol 2. (Ezzati M, Rodgers AD, Lopez AD, Murray CJL, eds). Geneva:World Health Organization, 1353-1433.
4. Dockery DW, Pope CA III, Xu X, Spengler JD, Ware JH, Fay ME, et al. 1993. An association between air pollution and mortality in six U.S. cities. N Engl J Med 329:1753-1759.
5. Gambrose JF, Nicolich MJ. 2000. Comparison of ambient PM risks estimated from PM components of smoking and occupational exposures. J Air Waste Manag Assoc 50:1514-1531.
6. Godtfredsen NS, Holst C, Prescott E, Vestbo J, Olser M. 2002. Smoking reduction, smoking cessation, and mortality: a 16-year follow-up of 19,732 men and women from the Copenhagen Centre for Prospective Population. Am J Epidemiol 156:994-1001.
7. Godtfredsen NS, Olser M, Vestbo J, Andersen I, Prescott E. 2003. Smoking reduction, smoking cessation, and incidence of fatal and non-fatal myocardial infarction in Denmark 1976-1998: a pooled cohort study. J Epidemiol Community Health 57:412-416.
8. Godtfredsen NS, Prescott E, Olser M. 2005. Effect of smoking reduction on lung cancer risk. JAMA 294:1505-1510.
9. Goldsmith JR, Kordysh E. 1993. Why dose-response relationships are often non-linear and some consequences. J Expo Anal Environ Epidemiol 3:259-276.
10. Hertz-Picciotto I, Smith AH. 1993. Observations on the dose-response curve for arsenic exposure and lung cancer. Scan J Work Environ Health 19:217-226.
11. Howard G, Thun MJ. 1999. Why is environmental tobacco smoke more strongly associated with coronary heart disease than expected? A review of potential biases and experimental data. Environ Health Perspect 107(suppl 6):853-858.
12. Laden F, Schwartz J, Speizer FE, Dockery DW. 2006. Reduction in fine particulate air pollution and mortality: extended follow-up of the Harvard Six Cities Study. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 173:667-672.
13. Lewtas J, Walsh D, Williams R, Dobias L. 1997. Air pollution exposure-DNA dosimetry in humans and rodents: evidence for non-linearity at high doses. Mutat Res 378:51-63.
14. McCracken J P, Smith KR, Diaz A, Mittleman MA, Schwartz J. 2007. Chimney stove intervention to reduce long-term wood smoke exposure lowers blood pressure among Guatemalan women. Environ Health Perspect 115:996-1001.
15. Mehta S, Gore F, Prüss-Üstün A, Rehfuess EA, Smith KR. 2006. Modelling household solid fuel use towards reporting of the Millennium Development Goal indicator. Energy Sustain Dev 10(3):36-45.
16. Miller KA, Siscovick DS, Sheppard L, Shepherd K, Sullivan JH, Anderson GL, et al. 2007. Long-term exposure to air pollution and incidence of cardiovascular events in women. N Engl J Med 356:447-458.
17. Moolgavkar SH. 2005. A review and critique of the EPA's rationale for a fne particle standard. Regul Toxicol Pharmacol 42:123-144.
18. Murray CJL, Ezzati M, Lopez AD, Rodgers A, Vander Hoorn S. 2004. Comparative quantification of health risks: conceptual framework and methodological issues. In: Comparative Quantification of Health Risks: Global and Regional Burden of Disease Attributable to Selected Major Risk Factors (Ezzati M, Rodgers AD, Lopez AD, Murray CJL, eds). Geneva:World Health Organization, 1-38.
19. Naeher L P, Brauer M, Lipsett M, Zelikoff JT, Simpson CD, Koenig JQ, et al. 2007. Woodsmoke health effects: a review. Inhal Toxicol 19(1):67-106.
20. Ostro B. 2004. Outdoor Air Pollution: Assessing the Environmental Burden of Disease at National and Local Levels. WHO Environmental Burden of Disease Series, No. 5. Geneva: World Health Organization.
21. Pope CA, Burnett RT, Krewski D, Jerrett M, Shi Y, Calle EE, et al. 2009. Cardiovascular mortality and exposure to airborne fine particulate matter and cigarette smoke. Circulation 120:941-948.
22. Pope CA III, Burnett RT, Thun MJ, Calle EE, Krewski D, Ito K, et al. 2002. Lung cancer, cardiopulmonary mortality, and long-term exposure to fne particulate air pollution. JAMA 287:1132-1141.
23. Pope CA III, Burnett RT, Thurston GD, Thun MJ, Calle EE, Krewski D, et al. 2004. Cardiovascular mortality and long-term exposure to particulate air pollution: epidemiological evidence of general pathophysiological pathways of disease. Circulation 109:71-77.
24. Pope CA III, Thun MJ, Namboodiri MM, Dockery DW, Evans JS, Speizer FE, et al. 1995. Particulate air pollution as a predictor of mortality in a prospective study of U.S. adults. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 151:669-674.
25. Prescott E, Scharling H, Osler M, Schnohr P. 2002. Importance of light smoking and inhalation habits on risk of myocardial infarction and all cause mortality. A 22 year follow up of 12,149 men and women in the Copenhagen City Heart Study. J Epidemiol Community Health 56:702-706.
26. Reddy K. 2004. Cardiovascular disease in non-Western countries. N Engl J Med 350(24):2438-2440.
27. Saksena S, Thompson L, Smith KR. 2003. Indoor Air Pollution and Exposure Database: Household Measurements in Developing Countries. Introduction. Available: http://ehs.sph. berkeley.edu/hem/page.asp?id=33 [accessed 7 May 2010].
28. Smith KR 1987. Biofuels, Air Pollution, and Health: A Global Review. New York: Plenum Press.
29. Smith KR, Mehta S, Maeusezahl-Feuz M. 2004. Indoor air pollution from household use of solid fuels. In: Comparative Quantifcation of Health Risks: Global and Regional Burden of Disease Attributable to Selected Major Risk Factors (Ezzati M, Rodgers AD, Lopez AD, Murray CJL, eds). Geneva:World Health Organization, 1435-1493.
30. Teo KK, Ounpuu S, Hawken S, Pandey MR, Valentin V, Hunt D, et al. 2006. Tobacco use and risk of myocardial infarction in 52 countries in the INTERHEART study: a case-control study. Lancet 368:647-658.
31. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 2006. The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta, GA:Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
32. Vineis P, Kogevinas M, Simonato L, Brennan P, Boffetta P. 2000. Levelling-off of the risk of lung and bladder cancer in heavy smokers: an analysis based on multicentric case-control studies and a metabolic interpretation. Mutat Res 463:103-110.
33. WHO (World Health Organization). 2006. WHO Air Quality Guidelines: Global Update for 2005. Copenhagen: World Health Organization Regional Offce for Europe.
34. Wilkinson P, Smith K, Davies M, Adair H, Armstrong B, Barrett M, et al. 2009. Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: household energy. Lancet 374(9705):1917-1929.
35. Yusuf S, Reddy S, Ounpuu S, Anand S. 2001. Global burden of cardiovascular diseases: part I: general considerations, the epidemiologic transition, risk factors, and impact of urbanization. Circulation 104(22):2746-2753.