ArticleAir quality, atmosphere, & health2016
Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Elemental Carbon in Bakersfield, California.
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- Development of Phase and Seasonally Dependent Land-Use Regression Models to Predict Atmospheric PAH Levels.Toxics · 2023Article
- Traffic-related air pollution is associated with glucose dysregulation, blood pressure, and oxidative stress in children.Environmental research · 2021Article
- Air pollution exposure is linked with methylation of immunoregulatory genes, altered immune cell profiles, and increased blood pressure in children.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Decrease in Ambient Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Concentrations in California's San Joaquin Valley 2000-2019.Atmospheric environment (Oxford, England : 1994) · 2020Article
- Immune biomarkers link air pollution exposure to blood pressure in adolescents.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2020Article
- Source Characterization and Exposure Modeling of Gas-Phase Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) Concentrations in Southern California.Atmospheric environment (Oxford, England : 1994) · 2018Article
- A pilot study comparing T-regulatory cell function among healthy children in different areas of Gansu, China.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2017Article
- Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Telomere Length in Children and Adolescents Living in Fresno, CA: A Pilot Study.Journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2017Article
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Abstract
Despite increasing evidence that airborne polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) exposures contribute to adverse health outcomes for sensitive populations, limited data are available on short-term intraurban spatial distributions for use in epidemiologic research. Exposure assessments for airborne PAHs are uncommon because air sampling for PAHs is a labor-, equipment-, and time-intensive task. To address this gap we measured wintertime PAH concentrations during 2010-2011 in Bakersfield, California, USA, a major city in the Southern San Joaquin Valley. Specifically, 58 96-hour integrated PAH samples were collected during 4 time periods at 14 locations from November 2010 to January 2011; duplicates were collected at two sites. We also collected elemental carbon (EC) at the same 14 sites and analyzed the two time periods with the highest ambient PAH pollution. We used linear regression models to quantify the relationship between potential spatial and temporal predictors of PAH concentrations. We found that wintertime PAH concentrations in Bakersfield, CA, are best predicted by meteorological variables and traffic proximity. Our model explains a moderate amount of the variability in the data (R
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