Effects of agriculture crop residue burning on children and young on PFTs in North West India

Awasthi, Amit; Singh, Nirankar; Mittal, Susheel K.; Gupta, Prabhat K.; Agarwal, Ravinder

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.06.040

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“…Thus such particles can be transported over a long distance from the original source resulting in an enhanced level of ambient PM concentrations even at rural or background sites. Agriculture crops residue burning (ACRB) is serious issue for both health and environment perspectives, due to ACRB there is significant increase in the concentration of PM in North West India (Awasthi et al, 2010).…”

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Source Apportionment and Characterization of Particulate Matter (PM10) in Urban Environment of Lahore

Alam

Mukhtar

Shahid

et al. 2014

Aerosol Air Qual. Res.

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The present study describes the characterization of carbonaceous species including elemental carbon (EC), organic carbon (OC), total carbon (TC), crustal (Al, Ca, Mg, Fe, S, and Ti) and trace metals (As, Ba, Cd, Cr, Cu, Mn, Ni, Pb, Sn and Zn) in PM 10 samples collected from an urban site in Lahore, Pakistan. Sources of various pollutants and their characterization positive matrix factorization (PMF) model. The carbonaceous species (TC, OC, EC) and metals were measured in PM 10 samples by NIOSH protocol using Sunset lab instruments and ICP-OES respectively. PM 10 concentrations varied from 254 to 555 µg/m 3 with an average of 406 ± 87 µg/m 3 . The elemental carbon (EC) concentration varied from 3 to 56 µg/m 3 with an average of 21 ± 15 µg/m 3 . While the organic carbon (OC) concentrations varied from 21 to 212 µg/m 3 with an average of 63 ± 42 µg/m 3 . The OC/EC ratio varied from 1.5-7.6 with an average of 3.9 ± 1.6, indicating a contribution of both biogenic and secondary aerosol formation. A good correlation was also observed between EC and OC (R 2 = 0.81) indicating their common origin. PMF has identified industrial dust (18.2% of PM 10 ), vehicular emission (26.5% of PM 10 ), bio mass fuel (24.3% of PM 10 ) and re-suspended dust (4.6% of PM 10 ) as major sources of PM 10 in urban environment of Lahore.

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Source Apportionment and Characterization of Particulate Matter (PM10) in Urban Environment of Lahore

Alam

Mukhtar

Shahid

et al. 2014

Aerosol Air Qual. Res.

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“…Ellegard reported that wood-burning stoves were associated with a significantly higher release of respirable particles (1,260 µg/m 3 ) compared with either charcoal (540 µg/m 3 ) or liquefied petroleum gas stoves (200–380 µg/m 3 ) during cooking time 14 . Some biomass smokes, such as agricultural crop residue smoke, primarily contain particles that are less than 10 µm in diameter and thus may have disproportionately greater respiratory effects than smoke from other biomass fuels 15 .…”

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Indoor Fuel Exposure and the Lung in Both Developing and Developed Countries

Sood

2012

Clinics in Chest Medicine

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Synopsis Almost 3 billion people worldwide burn solid fuels indoors. These fuels include biomass and coal. Although indoor solid fuel smoke is likely a greater problem in developing countries, wood burning populations in developed countries may also be at risk from these exposures. Despite the large population at risk worldwide, the effect of exposure to indoor solid fuel smoke has not been adequately studied. Indoor air pollution from solid fuel use is strongly associated with COPD (both emphysema and chronic bronchitis), acute respiratory tract infections, and lung cancer (primarily coal use) and weakly associated with asthma, tuberculosis, and interstitial lung disease. Tobacco use further potentiates the development of respiratory disease among subjects exposed to solid fuel smoke. There is a need to perform additional interventional studies in this field. It is also important to increase awareness about the health effects of solid fuel smoke inhalation among physicians and patients as well as trigger preventive actions through education, research, and policy change in both developing and developed countries.

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“…Fine particles, one of the major pollutants emitted from the field burning of rice straws, are of major concern due to their harmful effects on human health (Pope et al, 2009). Crop rice burning is a serious environmental health hazard, and children are more sensitive to air pollution, as RSBP poses some unrecoverable influence on their pulmonary function test (PFT) (Awasthi et al, 2010), early small airway obstruction (Ravinder et al, 2012). PAHs compounds have also been reported to induce a release of proinflammatory mediators, supporting a role for PAHs in the pro-inflammatory response (Lecureur et al, 2005).…”

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Effects of rice straw burning products on guinea pig lungs

Nageh¹,

ThannaaA²,

Magdaa³

et al. 2015

Afr. J. Pharm. Pharmacol.

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This study aims to investigate rice open field burning and their deleterious effects which has become an obvious problem in Egypt, which apparently affects the Egyptians´ lungs and increased hospital admission for pulmonary complaints. Therefore, this study was designed to investigate this phenomenon by using guinea pigs which were subjected to rice straws burning products (RSBP). The effects of RSBP on differential leukocytic count in lung lavages, histopathological examination, malondialdehyde (MDA) content in lung tissues (marker of lipid peroxidation) and nitric oxide (NO) content in lung tissues were studied. Results of this study demonstrated that RSBP induced pulmonary emphysematous lesions are progressive with subsequent smoke exposures together with the sensitization of the lung in the present model. Changes in the count of macrophages, neutrophils and eosinophils in the bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) of guinea pigs lungs compared to normal lavages. RSBP exposure has a potent potential capacity for being a source of reactive oxygen species and possibly oxidizing species which can lead to decrease nitric oxide content in lung tissue.

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Effects of agriculture crop residue burning on children and young on PFTs in North West India

Cited by 88 publications

References 33 publications

Source Apportionment and Characterization of Particulate Matter (PM10) in Urban Environment of Lahore

Source Apportionment and Characterization of Particulate Matter (PM10) in Urban Environment of Lahore

Indoor Fuel Exposure and the Lung in Both Developing and Developed Countries

Effects of rice straw burning products on guinea pig lungs

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