Cardiovascular Disease

Austin Air Purifiers help to eliminate Air Pollution
Every year for the past 12 years, the American Lung Association has analyzed data from Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) state air quality monitoring to learn about the air we breathe and how to protect our health offering steps to make air cleaner and healthier. According to newly released the "State of the Air 2011," living in some California cities, exposes residents to the worst air pollution in the country. On the other hand, in Honolulu and Santa Fe-Espanola, N.M. there are actually no days of smog and soot at unhealthy levels. The study[...]

Put Your Air Purifiers On High!
They are at it again! Senators recently introduced amendments to the bill, SBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act of 2011, labeled the Small Business Bill. Amendments designed to weaken the Clean Air Act and reduce or eliminate the responsibilities of the EPA in regulating carbon-producing industries. Get your air purifiers and air cleaners out and set them on HIGH because if passed, coal-burning facilities will not only continue to destroy the air we breathe, but with no EPA monitoring we will be unaware of increased toxic exposure levels.
The amendments are intended to limit or eliminate the EPA role[...]

Quality of Sleep Worsens With Particulate Matter in the Air
The Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham & Women's Hospital conducted a study investigating a hypothesis regarding a relationship between air pollution and sleeping disorders. In their results researchers demonstrated that an increase in air pollution directly correlated to increased breathing problems when sleeping. It was also noted that increased temperatures in combination with pollution worsened breathing conditions, disrupted sleep and reduced the quality of sleep. Sleeping problems included apnea, hypopnea and sleeplessness, often caused by a reduction in oxygen levels in the blood stream.
A report published in the American[...]

The latest Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine contains an article on cardiovascular health related to air pollution. This article reports how HEPA filters were found to remove airborne particulate matter which in turn removed cardiovascular risk factors. Air purifiers were used by researchers with adults subjects at many different locations. These purifiers were placed in common areas during the day and bedrooms at night. Throughout a two week study, HEPA filters were installed in, then removed from the air purifiers while the air was monitored for particulate matter. Study participants were unaware of these changes and at the[...]

EPA Air Purifier and Air Cleaner Monitoring
In 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) declared that it was critical to control of greenhouse gases because of the negative impact on air quality. They pointed out that these gases are a very serious public health threat. Since Republicans took control of the Congress and House in January, proposals have been made to remove the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating greenhouse polluting industries. If passed, air pollution emissions from coal and cement plants may continue as they exist today without improvements from air purifier or air cleaner technologies monitored by EPA regulation.
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