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Air Quality Guidelines Global Update 2005: Particulate Matter, ozone, nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide

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The article was published on 2006-12-31 and is currently open access. It has received 1591 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Ozone & Nitrogen dioxide.

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Gestational Diabetes and Preeclampsia in Association with Air Pollution at Levels below Current Air Quality Guidelines

TL;DR: NOx exposure during pregnancy was associated with gestational diabetes and preeclampsia in an area with air pollution levels below current air quality guidelines, and both outcomes were associated with high traffic density.
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A Review of the Use of Organic Amendments and the Risk to Human Health

TL;DR: A more holistic approach to management of organic amendments is required as intensification of agriculture increases as mentioned in this paper, and a more holistic management is required to manage organic amendments in the context of agricultural intensification.
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Sources, health effects and control strategies of indoor fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ): A review

TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive control strategy was proposed for sources decrement and health burden mitigation of indoor PM2.5, and the potential direction of development in indoor PM 2.5 research were projected, in hope of contributing to further relevant study of engineers in ambient environment and building environment.
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Indicators linking health and sustainability in the post-2015 development agenda.

TL;DR: Embedding of a range of health-related indicators in the post-2015 goals can help to raise awareness of the probable health gains from sustainable development policies, thus making them more attractive to decision makers and more likely to be implemented than before.
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Chemical speciation of respirable suspended particulate matter during a major firework festival in India.

TL;DR: The pollutant cocktail generated by the Diwali fireworks could be best represented with Ba, K and Sr as tracers and chronic exposure to DiWali pollution is likely to cause at least a 2% increase in non-carcinogenic hazard index (HI) associated with Al, Mn and Ba in the exposed population.
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