tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Incense smoke: clinical, structural and molecular effects on airway disease"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Incense smoke: clinical, structural and molecular effects on airway disease. | Clinical and Molecular Allergy BioMed Central Review Open Access Incense smoke clinical structural and molecular effects on airway disease Ta-Chang Lin 1 2 Guha Krishnaswamy3 and David S Chi3 Address Department of Environmental Engineering National Cheng Kung University Tainan Taiwan 2Sustainable Environment Research Center National Cheng Kung University Tainan Taiwan and 3Department of Internal Medicine James H. Quillen College of Medicine East Tennessee State University Johnson City TN USA Email Ta-Chang Lin - tachang@ Guha Krishnaswamy - krishnas@ David S Chi - chi@ Corresponding author Published 25 April 2008 Received 3 January 2008 Clinical and Molecular Allergy 2008 6 3 doi 86 1476-7961-6-3 Accepted 25 April 2008 This article is available from http content 6 1 3 2008 Lin et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract In Asian countries where the Buddhism and Taoism are mainstream religions incense burning is a daily practice. A typical composition of stick incense consists of 21 by weight of herbal and wood powder 35 of fragrance material 11 of adhesive powder and 33 of bamboo stick. Incense smoke fumes contains particulate matter PM gas products and many organic compounds. On average incense burning produces particulates greater than 45 mg g burned as compared to 10 mg g burned for cigarettes. The gas products from burning incense include CO CO2 NO2 SO2 and others. Incense burning also produces volatile organic compounds such as benzene toluene and xylenes as well as aldehydes and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons PAHs . The air pollution in and around various temples has been documented to have harmful effects on health. When .