Adverse health effects from ambient air pollution in relation to residential wood combustion in modern society.

This is a review of the adverse health effects of ambient air pollution in relation to residential wood combustion in modern society. From a literature search of PubMed, nine relevant studies were identified. All of them focused on the effects of short-term exposure such as asthma, respiratory symptoms, daily mortality, and lung function. Substantial quantitative information was only found for acute asthma in relation to particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter of <10 microm. In comparison with the present general estimations for ambient particulate matter and adverse health effects, the relative risks were even stronger in the studies in which residential wood combustion was considered a major source of particulate matter. Thus there seems to be no reason to assume that the effects of particulate matter in areas polluted by wood smoke are weaker than elsewhere.

• Publication year

  2003

• Venue

  Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health

• Publication date

  2003-08-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.5271/SJWEH.729PMID 12934718
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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