Gabriella Aggazzotti

TL;DR: Current evidence of an association between childhood swimming and new-onset asthma is suggestive but not conclusive, and important data gaps need to be filled, particularly in exposure assessment and characterization of asthma in the very young.

TL;DR: Environmental and biological monitoring of THMs was performed in order to assess the uptake of these substances after a defined period in five competitive swimmers, regularly attending an indoor swimming pool to train for competition during four sampling sessions.

TL;DR: Smoking during pregnancy was strongly associated with preterm delivery with a dose-response effect and ETS exposure in non-smoking women was associated only with early pre term delivery.

TL;DR: Breath analysis is a good biological index of occupational exposure to these substances at low environmental levels in indoor swimming pools, and correlation found between ambient and alveolar air samples confirms that Indoor swimming pool employees are exposed to THMs at ambient air levels higher than the general population.

TL;DR: Biological monitoring performed by gas chromatography on human plasma and alveolar air samples evidenced that the uptake of chloroform in swimmers varies according to the intensity of the physical activity and age.