Ki‐Hyun Kim, Ehsanul Kabir, Shamin Ara Jahan
Bioaerosols consist of aerosols originated biologically such as metabolites, toxins, or fragments of microorganisms that are present ubiquitously in the environment. International interests in bioaerosols have increased rapidly to broaden the pool of knowledge on their identification, quantification...
Kamran Siddiqi, Scheherazade Husain, Aishwarya Lakshmi Vidyasagaran, Anne Readshaw et al.
BACKGROUND: Smokeless tobacco (ST) is consumed by more than 300 million people worldwide. The distribution, determinants and health risks of ST differ from that of smoking; hence, there is a need to highlight its distinct health impact. We present the latest estimates of the global burden of disease...
Isabelle Romieu, Horacio Riojas‐Rodríguez, Adriana Teresa Marrón-Mares, Astrid Schilmann et al.
RATIONALE: Exposure to biomass smoke has been related to adverse health effects. In Mexico, one household in four still cooks with biomass fuel, but there has been no evaluation of the health impact of reducing indoor air pollution. OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the health impact of the introduction of an...
Joachim Heinrich, Ulrike Gehring, Jeroen Douwes, Andrea Koch et al.
BACKGROUND: Previous studies have shown that the risk for allergic sensitization is lower in children who grew up on farms and in young adults who were exposed to dogs in early childhood. A higher microbial exposure in general and in particular to endotoxin in early childhood might contribute to thi...
Matthew Shupler, Perry Hystad, Aaron Birch, Daniel Miller-Lionberg et al.
BackgroundApproximately 2·8 billion people are exposed to household air pollution from cooking with polluting fuels. Few monitoring studies have systematically measured health-damaging air pollutant (ie, fine particulate matter [PM2·5] and black carbon) concentrations from a wide range of cooking fu...
Md. Khalequzzaman, Michihiro Kamijima, Kiyoshi Sakai, Noor Ahmed Chowdhury et al.
UNLABELLED: Indoor air concentrations of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and dust particles were measured for 49 biomass and 46 fossil fuel users in urban slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh. The health impacts of these pollutants were as...
Chayan Kumer Saha, Christian Ammon, Werner Berg, Merike Fiedler et al.
Understanding seasonal and diel variations of ammonia (NH3) and methane (CH4) emissions from a naturally ventilated dairy (NVD) building may lead to develop successful control strategies for reducing emissions throughout the year. The main objective of this study was to quantify seasonal and diel va...
Hui‐Yu Sui, Ana A. Weil, Edwin Nuwagira, Firdausi Qadri et al.
Both the host microbiome and the microbiome of the built environment can have profound influences on human health. While prior studies have suggested that the variability introduced by DNA extraction method is less than typical biologic variation, most studies have focused on 16S rRNA amplicon seque...
Kwang Jin Kim, Md Khalekuzzaman, Jung Nam Suh, Hyeon-Ju Kim et al.
Xin Zhang, Dan Norbäck, Qiannan Fan, Xu Bai et al.
We studied dampness and mold in China in relation to rhinitis, ocular, throat and dermal symptoms, headache and fatigue. A questionnaire study was performed in six cities including 36 541 randomized parents of young children. Seven self-reported signs of dampness were evaluated. Multilevel logistic ...
Md. Hasan Al Banna, Tasnim Rahman Disu, Satyajit Kundu, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah et al.
BACKGROUND: Food handlers can play a vital role into reducing foodborne diseases by adopting appropriate food handling and sanitation practices in working plants. This study aimed to assess the factors associated with food safety knowledge and practices among meat handlers who work at butcher shops ...
Ehsanul Kabir, Abdelmonaim Azzouz, Nadeem Raza, Sanjeev K. Bhardwaj et al.
Bioaerosols in the form of microscopic airborne particles pose pervasive risks to humans and livestock. As either fully active components (e.g., viruses, bacteria, and fungi) or as whole or part of inactive fragments, they are among the least investigated pollutants in nature. Their identification a...
Ki‐Hyun Kim, Ehsanul Kabir, Shamin Ara Jahan
Waterpipe tobacco smoking (WTS, also known as hookah, shisha, narghile, and many other names) involves passing tobacco smoke through water prior to inhalation by the consumer. As the number of waterpipe smokers is rising rapidly, there is growing concern over the use of WTS, particularly as there ha...
Gaurang P. Nazar, John Tayu Lee, Monika Arora, Christopher Millett
INTRODUCTION: In high-income countries, secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure is higher among disadvantaged groups. We examine socioeconomic inequalities in SHS exposure at home and at workplace in 15 low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). METHODS: Secondary analyses of cross-sectional data from 15 LMI...
Zhuge Yang, Hua Qian, Xiaohong Zheng, Chen Huang et al.
BACKGROUND Children's pneumonia is a heavy health burden. Few studies have been carried out on residential risk factors for pneumonia in children. Potential risks associated with dwelling characteristics are still unknown. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted among children in 8 cities in C...