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Record Nr.

UNINA9910554862503321

Titolo

Environmental toxicants : human exposures and their health effects / / edited by Morton Lippmann, George D. Leikauf

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

1-119-43891-8

1-119-43892-6

1-119-43890-X

Edizione

[Fourth edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1,027 pages)

Disciplina

615.902

Soggetti

Environmental toxicology

Environmental Pollutants - adverse effects

Environmental Pollutants - toxicity

Environmental Health

Environmental Exposure

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Perspectives on individual and community risk -- Reducing risks : an environmental engineering perspective -- Clinical perspective on respiratory toxicology -- Industrial perspectives : translating the knowledge base into corporate policies, programs, and practices for health protection -- Food constituents and contaminants -- Acrolein and unsaturated aldehydes -- Chemical weapons -- Ambient air particulate matter -- Arsenic -- Asbestos and other mineral and vitreous fibers -- Carbon monoxide -- Chromium -- Diesel exhaust and lung cancer risk -- Endocrine disrupting chemicals -- Formaldehyde and other saturated aldehydes -- Lead and compounds -- Mercury -- Cardiopulmonary effects of nanomaterials -- Nitrogen oxides -- Ozone -- Pesticides -- Radon and lung cancer -- Secondhand tobacco smoke -- Sulfur oxides (sox) - so2, h2so4, nh4hso4, and (nh4)2so -- World Trade Center (WTC) dust.

Sommario/riassunto

"Environmental Toxicants: Human Exposures and Their Health Effects, 4th Edition is an invaluable reference tool that critically reviews current



knowledge on human exposure to selected chemical agents in the ambient environment. The latest edition provides the most current information and research available for performing risk assessments on exposed individuals and populations, giving guidance to public health authorities, primary care physicians, and industrial managers. Toxic substances in the general environment can produce adverse health effects among large numbers of people. The effects are usually sub-clinical unless cumulative changes lead to chronic effects after long-term exposure, causing a need for identification and risk assessment"--