Acute respiratory symptoms in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and in other subjects living near a coal-fired plant

Journal Article · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1984 · Arch. Environ. Health; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/00039896.1984.10545830· OSTI ID:6556802

Pershagen, G

Daily symptom rates in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and in other subjects with presumed high sensitivity to air pollution who lived near a coal-fired power plant were compared with 24 h ambient air concentrations of NO/SUB/2, SO/SUB/2, soot and suspended particles, as well as with emissions from the plant. The mean concentrations of each of the pollutants during the 4-month study period were below 30GAMMA/m/SUP/3, and no single 24h concentration exceeded 100GAMMA/m/SUP/3. There were no consistent associations between plant emissions and pollutant levels, or between these two variables and daily symptom rates. The results indicate that the coal-fired plant was not of major importance for the occurrence of acute respiratory symptoms in the surrounding population.

• OSTI ID: 6556802
• Journal Information: Arch. Environ. Health; (United States), Vol. 39:1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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