Air Pollution and Health Effects

• Reactive Ambient Particles.- Impacts of Air Pollution on Reproductive Health.- Air Pollution and Pregnancy Outcomes.- Air Pollution and Asthma.- Air pollution and chronic obstructive airway disease- Airborne Carcinogens – Mechanisms of Cancer .- Molecular epidemiology focused on airborne carcinogens.- Diabetes and metabolic syndrome.- Air Pollution, Lipids and Atherosclerosis.- Particulate Air Pollution and CNS Health.-Innate and adaptive immunity .- Genetics.- Urban Air Pollution and Health in Developing Countries.- Using Science to Shape Policy

"The book discusses pollution-induced health risks, mortality and global disease burden coupled with a review on biological mechanisms involved in air pollution-induced diseases. ... Editor's efforts should be appreciated for maintaining a balance between fundamentals and research-oriented information, use of illustrations and case studies highlighting explicitly the knowledge gaps, which will possibly initiate interest for formulating specific researches. The book may be useful to institutions, academicians and policy makers." (Tirthankar Banerjee and Nandita Singh, Current Science, Vol. 110 (6), March, 2016) "This is a useful compendium of our current knowledge about the science linking air pollution and toxicology. ... Although this book is primarily geared to professional researchers studying the epidemiology and toxicology of air pollution, it is written at a level that is easily accessible to graduate students, or even advanced upper division undergraduates. ... It compliments other books in this field with its liberal references and thorough descriptions." (Jed N. Lampe, Doody's Book Reviews, August, 2015)