Analyses of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

Document Type

Syllabus

Publication Date

1-1-2018

Abstract

The ATEOS study, which is the basis of this monograph, focused on the measurement of pollutants and biological activity thought to be associated with chronic diseases, notably cancer. New Jersey is known to have high overall and lung cancer mortality rates relative to other states (Greenberg, 1979; New Jersey Department of Health, 1981). However, the difficulties in making correlations between mortality and air pollution have been reviewed recently (Lipfert, 1985; Greenberg, 1986). While there is reasonable convergence between different studies of acute health effects of air pollution [measured by total suspended particulates (TSP), coefficient of haze (COH), or sulfate], there remains considerable divergence in analogous studies of chronic health effects. Attempts to understand the relationship of cancer risk to air pollution are confounded by the subtlety of the effects themselves, colinearity of independent variables and ambiguities in diagnoses and case histories. A recent U.S. EPA study (Haemisegger et al., 1985) based upon consideration of three epidemiological studies (NESHAP Study, 35-County Study, and Ambient Air Quality Study), concluded that the estimated cancer risk in the United States due to air pollution was between 5 and 7.5 cases per million per year. The total estimated annual cases from air pollution, 1300 to 1700, is small compared to the total estimate of cancer cases (440,000 in 1983). Nonetheless, the number is still sizable and the rate of occurrence should be higher in industrialized and densely populated regions; this is in line with the findings of the earlier cited New Jersey study.

Identifier

84910930070 (Scopus)

ISBN

[0873710576, 9781315898247, 9781351085793]

Publication Title

Toxic Air Pollution A Comprehensive Study Non Criteria Air Pollutants

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1201/9781351077347

First Page

91

Last Page

122

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