Traffic-Related Air Pollution: A Critical Review of the Literature on Emissions, Exposure, and Health Effects

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Traffic-Related Air Pollution: A Critical Review of the Literature on

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http://pubs.healtheffects.org/view.php?id=334

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Report Links Vehicle Exhaust to Health Problems*

By MATTHEW L. WALD

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/13/health/research/13exhaust.html

Exhaust from cars and trucks exacerbates asthma in children and may

cause new cases as well as other respiratory illnesses and heart

problems resulting in deaths, an independent institute that focuses on

vehicle-related air pollution has concluded...

The report, to be issued on Wednesday by the nonprofit Health Effects

Institute, analyzed 700 peer-reviewed studies conducted around the world

on varying aspects of motor vehicle emissions and health. It found

" evidence of a causal relationship, " but not proof of one, between

pollution from vehicles and impaired lung function and accelerated

hardening of the arteries.

It said there was " strong evidence " that exposure to traffic helped

cause variations in heart rate and other heart ailments that result in

deaths. But among the many studies that evaluated death from heart

problems, some did not separate stress and noise from air pollution as a

cause, it said.

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The institute, based in Boston, is jointly financed by the Environmental

Protection Agency and the auto industry to help assure its

independence/*. Its reports are peer-reviewed but are not published in a

scientific journal...

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