Bertil Forsberg

TL;DR: It is suggested that regional air pollution measured at fixed sites is not associated with allergic sensitization among adults in ECRHS II, a cross-sectional survey initiated in 29 countries across Europe in the 1990s and conducted 10 years later.

TL;DR: The markedly more severe activity-related breathlessness among females in the general population is explained by their smaller spirometric lung volumes, which is similar within males and females, when using FVC instead of FEV1 and in healthy never-smokers.

TL;DR: Subjects with ACO have a high prevalence of insomnia and respiratory symptoms, and this is the first study to assess the association between sleep-related symptoms and ACO.

TL;DR: In December 2013, at the end of the EU Year of Air, the Commission presented its new policy plan, which does not revise the limit values in the Air Quality Directive and does not make mandatory the voluntary exposure reduction targets, but now proposes introducing a medium-size combustion plant emissions directive and further reductions of the so-called National Emission Ceilings.