Elemental analysis of infant airborne particulate exposures

• Published in: Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology Vol. 27; no. 5; pp. 526 - 534
• Main Authors: Sloan, Chantel D, Weber, Frank X, Bradshaw, Rebecca K, Philipp, Tyler J, Barber, W Bradford, Palmer, Vanessa L, Graul, Robert J, Tuttle, Steven C, Chartier, Ryan T, Johnston, James D
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Nature Publishing Group US 01.09.2017; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 692/700/1720/3187; 692/700/478; 704/172/169/895; Adult; Air pollution; Airborne particulates; Analysis; Antimony; Babies; Comparative analysis; Control; Environmental aspects; Environmental Exposure; Environmental monitoring; Environmental Monitoring - instrumentation; Epidemiology; Exposure; Global positioning systems; GPS; Humans; Infant; Infants; Lead; Lungs; Manganese; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Metals - analysis; Nickel; Optical density; original-article; Parents; Particulate emissions; Particulate matter; Particulate Matter - analysis; Pollutants; Time of use; Utah; United States; child exposure/health; particulate matter; environmental monitoring; criteria pollutants

Air pollution is hypothesized to have negative impacts on infant pulmonary health because of infants’ increased rates of respiration and ongoing lung development. The severity and type of impact may differ depending on elemental concentrations. We conducted a study of 21 infants <6 months old who...