Bio3Air, an integrative system for monitoring individual-level air pollutant exposure with high time and spatial resolution
| Autor: | Pengfei Yao, Changhui Wang, Haoxiang Cheng, Lihong Fan, Jushan Zhang, Liping Wang, Dongbin Wang, Long Cheng, Zhongyang Zhang, Antonio Fabio Di Narzo, Jianwei Lu, Ke Hao, Jing Yu, Jingkun Jiang, Yuan Shen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Canada
China Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis 0211 other engineering and technologies Air pollution 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences medicine.disease_cause 01 natural sciences Article Environmental health medicine Humans Image resolution Disease burden Reliability (statistics) 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Pollutant Air Pollutants 021110 strategic defence & security studies Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Reproducibility of Results General Medicine Particulates Individual level Pollution United States Air Pollution Indoor Environmental science Particulate Matter Smartphone Software Environmental Monitoring Environmental epidemiology |
| Zdroj: | Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 169:756-763 |
| ISSN: | 0147-6513 |
| Popis: | Background Air pollution is a leading cause of global disease burden. Lack of suitable methods for long term measuring exposure level at individual level is crippling environmental epidemiology research of air pollution. Methods We report an integrative system, Bio3Air, for long term measurement of individual level air pollution exposure, currently focusing on ambient particulate matter (PM). The novel system in real-time quantifies individual's outdoor/indoor status, geological location, lung ventilation rate and PM concentration of individual's surrounding environment, and these metrics are subsequently incorporated in calculating PM exposure. Results The system is fully developed and tested in China, USA and Canada, and has been successfully applied in epidemiology study. Bio3Air offers high reliability, sensitivity, reproducibility (>99%) and accuracy. It has high time- and spatial- resolution (≤ 2 min and ≤ 20 m, respectively). Bio3Air achieved 91.89% consistency with “gold-standard” method (membrane collection and off-line analysis). Conclusions Bio3Air represents a substantial methodological advance in environmental health research of air pollution. It captures information relevant in measuring individual's PM exposure (e.g. real-time outdoor/indoor status, location and lung ventilation rate). Such information is typically missed by conventional approaches. Additional features of Bio3Air include easy-to-use, cost-effectiveness and automated data collection, making it a powerful tool facilitating studies of air pollution exposure and health consequences. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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