Medgyesi, Danielle N Mujtaba, Mohammed Nuhu Yang, Qiang Abubakari, Sulemana Watara Lee, Alison G Porter, Jeremy Chillrud, Steven N Kaali, Seyram Jack, Darby W Asante, Kwaku Poku
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Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology
Personal exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) from household air pollution is well-documented in sub-Saharan Africa, but spatiotemporal patterns of exposure are poorly characterized. We used paired GPS and personal PM2.5 data to evaluate changes in exposure across location-time environments (e.g., household and community, during cooking and ...
Ahmed, Shyfuddin Chowdhury, Muhammad Ashique Haider Kader, Shirmin Bintay Shahriar, Mohammad Hasan Begum, Bilkis A Eunus, Mahbubul Sarwar, Golam Islam, Tariqul Alam, Dewan S Parvez, Faruque
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International journal of environmental health research
We assessed whether personal exposure to household air pollution [PM2.5 and black carbon (BC)] is associated with lung functions (FEV1, FVC, and their ratio) in non-smoking adults in rural Bangladesh. We measured personal exposure to PM2.5 using gravimetric analysis of PM2.5 mass and BC by reflectance measurement between April 2016 and June 2019. T...
Alas, Honey Dawn Stöcker, Almond Umlauf, Nikolaus Senaweera, Oshada Pfeifer, Sascha Greven, Sonja Wiedensohler, Alfred
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Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology
Data from extensive mobile measurements (MM) of air pollutants provide spatially resolved information on pedestrians' exposure to particulate matter (black carbon (BC) and PM2.5 mass concentrations). We present a distributional regression model in a Bayesian framework that estimates the effects of spatiotemporal factors on the pollutant concentrati...
Huhmann, Linden B Harvey, Charles F Navas-Acien, Ana Graziano, Joseph Slavkovich, Vesna Chen, Yu Argos, Maria Ahsan, Habibul van Geen, Alexander
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Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology
Water arsenic (As) sources beyond a rural household's primary well may be a significant source for certain individuals, including schoolchildren and men working elsewhere. To improve exposure assessment by estimating the fraction of drinking water that comes from wells other than the household's primary well in a densely populated area. We use well...
Gardner-Frolick, Rivkah Boyd, David Giang, Amanda
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Environmental science & technology
Given the serious adverse health effects associated with many pollutants, and the inequitable distribution of these effects between socioeconomic groups, air pollution is often a focus of environmental justice (EJ) research. However, EJ analyses that aim to illuminate whether and how air pollution hazards are inequitably distributed may present a u...
Smith, Cara M Chillrud, Steven N Jack, Darby W Kinney, Patrick Yang, Qiang Layton, Aimee M
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Journal of occupational and environmental medicine
Evaluate Hexoskin performance on a stationary bike against "gold standard" laboratory equipment and develop adjustment models for future use in field settings. Compared respiratory rate (RR), tidal volume (VT), minute ventilation (VE), and heart rate (HR) measured by the Hexoskin shirt to simultaneous spirometry and full 12-lead electrocardiogram d...
Pillarisetti, Ajay Carter, Ellison Rajkumar, Sarah Young, Bonnie N Benka-Coker, Megan L Peel, Jennifer L Johnson, Michael Clark, Maggie L
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Environment international
We measured 24-hour average personal exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) among rural Honduran women using a lightweight, gravimetric monitor - the Ultrasonic Personal Aerosol Sampler (UPAS). Performance of the UPAS was compared with a commonly used gravimetric pump, cyclone, and filter sampling system. We observed strong agreement and corre...
Thielens, Arno Van den Bossche, Matthias Brzozek, Christopher Bhatt, Chhavi Raj Abramson, Michael J Benke, Geza Martens, Luc Joseph, Wout
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Environmental research
The aims of this study were to: i) investigate the repeatability and representativeness of personal radio frequency-electromagnetic fields (RF-EMFs) exposure measurements, across different microenvironments, ii) perform simultaneous evaluations of personal RF-EMF exposures for the whole body and the head, iii) validate the data obtained with a head...
Yu, Nu
Taxi drivers and passengers are exposed to traffic related air pollutants (TRAPs), but their exposures and mitigation strategies were rarely explored. In passenger vehicles, the particulate matter (PM) concentrations can be 10 times higher than those in the general ambient environment, and the taxi vehicles are usually leakier than regular passenge...
Yu, Nu
Taxi drivers and passengers are exposed to traffic related air pollutants (TRAPs), but their exposures and mitigation strategies were rarely explored. In passenger vehicles, the particulate matter (PM) concentrations can be 10 times higher than those in the general ambient environment, and the taxi vehicles are usually leakier than regular passenge...
