Abdus Salam, Heidi Bauer, Karin Kassin, Shah Mohammad Ullah et al.
Barbro Nermell, Anna‐Lena Lindberg, Mahfuzar Rahman, Marika Berglund et al.
This study aims at evaluating the suitability of adjusting urinary concentrations of arsenic, or any other urinary biomarker, for variations in urine dilution by creatinine and specific gravity in a malnourished population. We measured the concentrations of metabolites of inorganic arsenic, creatini...
Ahsan Mozaffar, Yanlin Zhang
Geir Bjørklund, Yuliya Semenova, Lyudmila Pivina, Maryam Dadar et al.
Uranium (U) has no known essential biological functions. Furthermore, it is well known for its toxicity, radioactivity, and carcinogenic potency. Impacts on human health due to U exposure have been studied extensively by many researchers. Chronic exposure to low-level U isotopes (radionuclides) may ...
Md. Anwarul Abedin, Andrew Collins, Umma Habiba, Rajib Shaw
Climate change may affect human health through multiple and interactive pathways that include safe water scarcity. However, impacts of climate change-induced water scarcity on health and well-being are complex. About 80% of illnesses in developing countries are attributed to unsafe drinking water an...
Perry Hystad, Andrew Larkin, Sumathy Rangarajan, Khalid F. AlHabib et al.
BackgroundMost studies of long-term exposure to outdoor fine particulate matter (PM2·5) and cardiovascular disease are from high-income countries with relatively low PM2·5 concentrations. It is unclear whether risks are similar in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) and how outdoor PM2·5 ...
Nurshad Ali, Farjana Islam
The outbreak of COVID-19 has created a serious public health concern worldwide. Although, most of the regions around the globe have been affected by COVID-19 infections; some regions are more badly affected in terms of infections and fatality rates than others. The exact reasons for such variations ...
Philip K. Hopke, David D. Cohen, Bilkis A. Begum, Swapan Kumar Biswas et al.
Over the past decade, member states of the Regional Co-operation Agreement (RCA), an intergovernmental agreement for the East Asia and Pacific region under the auspices of the IAEA with the assistance of international organizations and financial institutions such as the World Bank and the Asian Deve...
Bilkis A. Begum, Philip K. Hopke, A. Markwitz
In Dhaka, Bangladesh, particular matter (PM) is the air pollutant that is most harmful to public health and the environment when compared to other measured criteria pollutants. During recent years, the Government of Bangladesh has tried to control PM emissions coming from anthropogenic sources. Abou...
Bilkis A. Begum, Swapan Kumar Biswas, Philip K. Hopke
Graydon Snider, Crystal Weagle, Kalaivani K. Murdymootoo, Amanda Ring et al.
Abstract. The Surface PARTiculate mAtter Network (SPARTAN) is a long-term project that includes characterization of chemical and physical attributes of aerosols from filter samples collected worldwide. This paper discusses the ongoing efforts of SPARTAN to define and quantify major ions and trace me...
Susmita Dasgupta, Md. Enamul Huq, M. Khaliquzzaman, Kiran Pandey et al.
Poor households in Bangladesh depend heavily on wood, dung and other biomass fuels for cooking. This paper provides a detailed analysis of the implications for indoor air pollution (IAP), drawing on new 24-h monitoring data for respirable airborne particulates (PM10). A stratified sample of 236 hous...
Trishul Siddharthan, Matthew R. Grigsby, Dina Goodman, Muhammad Ashique Haider Chowdhury et al.
RATIONALE: Forty percent of households worldwide burn biomass fuels for energy, which may be the most important contributor to household air pollution. OBJECTIVES: To examine the association between household air pollution exposure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) outcomes in 13 reso...
Bilkis A. Begum, Eugene Kim, Cheol–Heon Jeong, Doh-Won Lee et al.
Zhuzi Zhao, Junji Cao, Zhenxing Shen, Baiqing Xu et al.
Abstract Bulk aerosol samples were collected from 16 July 2008 to 26 July 2009 at Lulang, a high‐altitude (>3300m above sea level) site on the southeast Tibetan Plateau (TP); objectives were to determine chemical characteristics of the aerosol and identify its major sources. We report aerosol (to...