The New England Journal of Medicine
e-mail icon  FREE NEJM E-TOC    HOME   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   CURRENT ISSUE   |   PAST ISSUES   |   COLLECTIONS   |    Advanced Search
Sign in | Get NEJM's E-Mail Table of Contents — Free | Subscribe
 
Correspondence
PreviousPrevious
Volume 355:1496-1497 October 5, 2006 Number 14
NextNext

Inhaled Carbon and Lung Function in Children

Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

 Sign up for free e-toc
 

This Article
-Full Text
- PDF
-PDA Full Text
-Purchase this article

Tools and Services
-Add to Personal Archive
-Add to Citation Manager
-Notify a Friend
-E-mail When Cited
-E-mail When Letters Appear

More Information
-Related Article
by Gauderman, W. J.
-Related Article
by Kulkarni, N.
-PubMed Citation
To the Editor: Kulkarni and colleagues (July 6 issue)1 found that the level of carbon in airway macrophages in children was strongly associated with expiratory flow rates, although in the 64 healthy children with sufficient numbers of airway macrophages for analysis, all these values were within generally acceptable normal limits. Why should this be? We suggest that this finding indicates that an accumulation of particles was a strong indicator of exposure to urban particulate air pollution and that exposure, in turn, is associated with chronic respiratory subclinical bronchiolitis. If so, we suggest that current exposures to urban pollution have to . . . [Full Text of this Article]



HOME  |  SUBSCRIBE  |  SEARCH  |  CURRENT ISSUE  |  PAST ISSUES  |  COLLECTIONS  |  PRIVACY  |  TERMS OF USE  |  HELP  |  beta.nejm.org

Comments and questions? Please contact us.

The New England Journal of Medicine is owned, published, and copyrighted © 2009 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.